At the 1893 Columbian Exposition, a World Fair held in Chicago, chocolate-making machinery made in Germany was displayed. It caught the eye of M.S. Hershey, who saw the potential for chocolate. He installed chocolate machinery in his factory in Lancaster, and produced his first chocolate bar...
the nation's greatest minds in 1889.[24] But whereas the Prague Slav铆n was a site of memory and point of orientation for the entire nation, including those members of the nation living abroad, Chicago's Slav铆n constituted a uniquely Czech American memory set ...
Ferris wheels have been turning for more than 130 years, the first one constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, designed by George Washington Gale Ferris. Paul Durica, director of exhibitions at the Chicago History Museum, notes that Ferris was an up-and-coming engineer...
The LBE industry is also a story of fresh innovation and the integration ofnew location-based technologies. Although we look today for the new forms of truly immersive experiences (virtual, living stories, or otherwise), there was a time when the first drive-in movie theater was a marvel, ...
It was after Hershey visited the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago and saw German-made chocolate processing machinery that he decided to switch from caramel to chocolate. According to Britannica, by 1900 he had sold his caramel company and, around 1903, business was so good he ...
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"What Blood Unites, the Sea Shall Not Divide": Bohemian Day at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 B AUGUST 10, 1893, WAS AN UNUSUALLY BUSY DAY b in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. The Slav铆n, a section of the national cemetery on the ruins of the famed ... MW Dean - 《Journ...
Like other buildings in the Chicago area he designed at about the same time, this was called a prairie house. Wright conceived the long, sweeping ground-hugging lines, unconfined by abrupt wall limits, as reaching out toward and capturing the expansiveness of the place great flatlands. Starting...
The first formally-listed public company by widely issuing shares of stock and bonds to the general public in the early 1600s, it was the world’s most valuable company of all-time, with a worth of $7.9-trillion.It was considered by many to be to have been the forerunner of modern ...
ST: Well, that’s a very complex question. When I was at Yale, Paul Rudolph was the Chair, and Paul was a very tough guy. In the 1959-60 academic year, I was in the Bachelor’s thesis class. The class started in September with thirty students. By the tim...