[DOC] [TLE] Centennial Exposition - Wikipedia [PAR] The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the 
United States ... The Philadelphia City Council and the Pennsylvania General 
Assembly ... On February 11, 1876, Congress appropriated US$1.5 million in a 
loan. ... They were the Main Exhibition Building, Memorial Hall, Machinery Hall,... [DOC] [TLE] The Centennial Exposition of 1876 . U.S. Grant: Warrior . WGBH ... [PAR] The first world's fair held in the United States, the Expo celebrated the 100th 
anniversary of ... and provided the power for all the machines in the exhibition's 
Machinery Hall. ... One of the Expo's most popular displays, and the largest in the 
U.S.... [DOC] [TLE] Centennial Exhibition | Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia [PAR] Amid displays promoting education, industry, and science, exhibits also ... 
Machinery Hall housed the huge Corliss Engine, both the power source for the 
fair and .... a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-
1916. ... United States Centennial Commission  International Exhibition of 1876, 
City of... [DOC] [TLE] The Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 [PAR] Title: The Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia 1876 ... In celebration of America's 
one-hundredth anniversary of independence, the Centennial ... buildings: the 
Main Exhibition Building, Memorial Hall (Art Gallery), Machinery Hall, ... 
companies, and other Centennial bureaus that focused on particular displays or 
services. [DOC] [TLE] Party Like It's 1876! 12 Items From the Centennial Exposition ... [PAR] Aug 16, 2010 ... The 1876 International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and ... Here's a sampling 
of some of the more famous and bizarre items on display. ... the center of 
Machinery Hall, the main attraction inside the most popular building at the fair. ... 
The inspiration for Watts' invention was what he perceived as a lack of... [DOC] [TLE] World's Fairs - World History in Context - Gale [PAR] Beginning with London's Great Exhibition in 1851, a series of world's fairs were ... 
of Arts held an exhibition of machinery and mechanical inventions in 1761, and 
..... in Philadelphia to celebrate the centennial of the American Revolution in 
1876, ... displays of the products of Europe's overseas empires, their main focus 
had... [DOC] [TLE] Expedition Magazine | All the World in One Place - Penn Museum [PAR] The Corliss engine at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was ... of 
prestige: for a brief time, the host city was the most important place in the world. ... 
At any one fair you could smoke a Turkish pipe, witness new inventions like .... At 
the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, Native Americans were represented by displays
... [DOC] [TLE] The 1876 Centennial Exposed - Digital Commons @ Hope College [PAR] guests pave the way to Machinery Hall where the Corliss ... Historical Register of 
the Centennial Exposition, 1876 and James McCabe Jr.'s The Illustrated ... of 
women and African Americans at the close of the Reconstruction era in the late 
19 ... Philadelphia becoming the first city in the nation to house an abolitionist 
society. [DOC] [TLE] By Samantha Markowitz - Weigle Information Commons - University ... [PAR] sewing machine, and I will focus on five: The World's Fair Exhibitions, the Singer 
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in Machinery Hall, such as Wheeler & Wilson, Willcox & Gibbs, Weed, Davis, .... 
Sewing machines were a revolutionary invention for making clothing in the home;
. [DOC] [TLE] Technical Museums and International Exhibitions - American ... [PAR] The 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, first of the major international ... of 
1873.2 The International Centennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia in 1876, made 
possible ... proposed a museum of inventions and a gallery of portraits of 
inventors.7 The ..... Geological and mining displays were planned; industrial halls
, halls of... [DOC] [TLE] Timeline 1845-1916 - Pinzler.com [PAR] 1865, The frontier city of Chicago opens its Union stockyards. ... Gustavus Swifts 
invention of the refrigerated train car helps to make Chicago the foremost ... 1876, 
The Centennial Exposition opened by

Question: The focus of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in this city was Machinery Hall, which displayed American inventions
Answer: Philadelphia