Paris: The Grand International Exposition of 1900


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"Our Centennial--President Grant and Dom Pedro Starting the Corliss Engine"
 --Theodore Davis, 1876.
 The image to the left is not a dynamo, but it suggests the scale of the machines that Adams saw in Paris. 

The image to the right is an electrical transformer by Nicholas Tessla, circa, 1900. 

The image provides a link to Galileo Ferraris Museum of Electrical Instruments, a collection of late nineteenth century electronic machines, similar in function to those that excited Adams's imagination.


 

Visit the Rodin Museum in Paris!
Visit the Webmuseum (More Rodin)
Some "Decadence" (Wilde and Beardsley)
 

 

 In addition to speculating about the power symbolized by the dynamos to be found in the Gallery of Machines, works of modern art posed a somewhat more delicate problem for Adams. Among these works were the sculptures of  Pierre Auguste Rodin.
Augustus St. Gaudens was a close friend of Adams. The statue commissioned by Adams on the death of his wife, shows some similarities to the work of Rodin. Of course, it was the Virgin herself that for Adams symbolized the greatest force know to man prior, that is, to the discovery of the new forces represented by the dynamo.    
Images of Chartres at Something Gothic
St. Gaudens National Historic Site
Shaw Memorial, 1884-97
Some domestic scenes from the lives of Henry and Clover Adams
Portals of the Cathedral of Amiens

 

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