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Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu Nouvelle Revue Internationale

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Ethnology, Machinery, Engineers, Engineering, Progress

    This 'brilliant literary paper' presents several imaginary letters and journals by fictional foreign visitors to the Exposition Universelle de Paris de 1889. These include a Shah for whom the 'groaning and hissing [...] machines' have been 'invented by evil spirits', and an American engineer who admires the Tour Eiffel, but 'hurries home to draw up plans for constructing a tower half as high again'. (48)