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1885 Antwerp
| Name: | Exposition Universelle d’Anvers Wereldtentoonstelling van Antwerpen |
| Dates: | 2 May – 2 Nov 1885 |
| Days: | |
| Venue: | ‘t-Zuid (south side)- 22 hectares (54 acres) |
| Theme: | Municipal promotion |
| Exhibitors: | 14,472 – including 3,411 Belgian – from 32 countries (25 official) |
| Awards: | |
| Visitors: | 3,500,00 |
| Legacy: |
1885, Antwerp BE: This event derived from a strong Belgian presence at the 1883 International Colonial and Export Exhibition in Amsterdam, Belgium had been the first continental European nations to industrialise, from the 1830s.
It was located at t’Zuid or the south side of Antwerp adjacent to Antwerp’s soutern railway station and near the freshly reopend Scheldt quays. It took up 90,000 sq m of space, 25,000 sq m was built halls/pavilions for Belgian exhibits.
The main poits of interest were the Hall of Machinery and a Hall of Industry. Telephone communication in Belgian cities was under way, the venue installed phones, having connections to venues in Brussels (50kms – 32 miles away) to deliver live concerts and other performances to the show site. The French exhibited plans for the Eiffel Tower.
A feature of the show was the promotion of King Leopold’s new colony – The Congo. Inspired by the Amsterdam exposition they exhibited a Village Congolese – a human zoo?
1885, Antwerp BE: Text kindly supplied by the Julian Ochorowicz Foundation: The demonstrations took place over several weeks in two pavilions located on either side of the exhibition’s main entrance. In one, Julian Ochorowicz presented his inventions (including telephones). In the other, engineer François Van Rysselberghe from Ghent, director of the Belgian Meteorological Office, presented his devices. (Julian Ochorowicz was a Polish philosopher, psychologist and the inventor of a precursor for radio and television.) (Van Rysselberghe was a pioneer of long-distance telephone communication and developed a system allowing several telephone signals to pass through telegraph cables.)
There were twenty-five official exhibiting countries included – Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain…
Its budget was 4m Belgian Francs, most funding came from the city, it broke even.
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Pokazy odbywały się przez kilka tygodni w dwóch pawilonach położonych po obu stronach głównego wejścia na wystawę. W jednym prezentował swoje wynalazki (m. in. telefony) Julian Ochorowicz. W drugim pawilonie przedstawił swoje urządzenia inżynier François Van Rysselberghe z Gandawy, dyrektor Belgijskiego Biura Meteorologicznego.
Thanks for your information – have translated it and placed it on the page for 1885, Antwerp BE. I also added some information about the two named individuals as they perhaps are not so well-known? I certainly hadn’t come across either of them.