World Expos

I've always loved design and art history, so here is an image dump of World Expositions!!

P.S. World Fair 2012 is currently undergoing in Yeosu, South Korea until August (pictured above). Unfortunately, I didn't get to make it there during my trip to S. Korea, but I heard all about it from my grandmother, who thoroughly enjoyed it.

--Michi

World's first expo in London; The Crystal Palace, 1851.

Brussels, 1858

Paris, 1889

Chicago, 1893--First ferris wheel

San Francisco, 1915, Tower of Jewels

NYC, "The World of Tomorrow," 1939

Montreal, 1967, Buckminster Fuller here with his geodesic dome

First expo in Japan--Osaka, 1970, first imax film and early mobile phones