Book Award Winner: Expositions & World’s Fairs: In the Beginning by Bob McGlincy

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Synopsis

World’s Fairs of the past changed the way we live today.

Long before smart phones and the internet, these events showcased the future with fanfare and fireworks. From elevators to telephones, air conditioners to computers, and light switches to zippers, countless inventions we take for granted today were introduced to wide-eyed crowds at these once-in-a-lifetime spectacles. Travel back in time to the beginning of the Golden Age of Expositions and walk alongside Queen Victoria, Joseph Paxton, Elisha Otis, Napolean III, Thomas Edison and other visionaries who dared to imagine the future.

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Author Bio

Bob McGlincy is a columnist of Exhibit City News Magazine, and the co-author of the award-winning The Invisible Industry.

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