Kensington, International Exhibition
The Catalogue of the Exhibition has the following entry- Class XI- Military Committee, Military Engineering, Armour and Accoutrements, Ordinance and Small Arms. Chairman. Major General. The Hon. James Lindsay, M.P.
Lieutenant General Sir James Alexander Lindsay, KCMG,( 1815-1874) Army officer, Conservative Party politician and M.P. and member of Clan Lindsay.
The Exhibition was held from May 1 to November 1, 1862, beside the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington on a site that now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.
All told, it attracted about 6.1 million visitors.
The building consisted of a main structure with two adjoining wings set at right angles for machinery and agricultural equipment; the wings were demolished after the Exhibition. Although they were then the two largest domes in the world, their effect was distinctly unimpressive, and they were derided as "colossal soup bowls" and "a national disgrace." The building as a whole was termed "a wretched shed" by The Art Journal.
The organizers succeeded in assembling and displaying more exhibits by more exhibitors from more participating countries than had ever been attempted before. Some 29,000 exhibitors representing 37 countries participated, a truly staggering number which would have been substantially higher if the USA had not been preoccupied with the Civil War. This eclipsed the scale of the 1855 Paris event by a comfortable margin. Over 9,000 of the participating exhibitors came from Britain alone, together with a further 2,600 from the British Colonies.
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