| Palais des Machines
Ferdinand Dutert, architect; Victor Contamin, engineer
View of the interior. This innovative iron and glass structure was the
largest building in the exposition, enclosing fifteen acres. Its most
extensive exhibit was that of Thomas Edison’s 493 inventions. Referred
to at the time as a "disconcerting industrial cathedral,"
the Palais des Machines was reused for the 1900 Universal Exposition
and demolished in 1909.
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©1999 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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