World Exhibitions of the Second Half of the 19th Century: A Means of Updating E...

• Autor(es): Matos, Ana Cardoso de
• Data: 2004
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/2388
• Origem: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Assunto(s): Exposições Universais; transferência da tecnologia; circulação de conhecimentos; História da engenharia
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês
• Editor(es): Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Escola Técnica Superior d'Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona

Descrição

1-World Exhibitions as a means of highlighting the economic, political and technological power of different countries. 2 - The Exhibition as a means of advancing scientific, technical and industrial progress. 3 - Visits of engineers to the World Exhibitions in the 2nd half of the 19thcentury and the transfer of technology. 4- The attempt to define international procedures in the field of engineering: conferences held in association with World Exhibitions.