The exposition of 1851 (Registro nro. 117232)
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| LC control number | 05034938 |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | T |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Babbage, Charles, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1791-1871 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The exposition of 1851 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-07-15 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Hannah Wilson, Raymond Papworth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The exposition of 1851: or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government, of England" by Charles Babbage is a political and economic treatise written in the mid-19th century. Centered on the Great Exhibition, it analyzes how industry, science, and public institutions should be organized and judged, arguing for free exchange, competition, and transparent pricing. The work critiques official management and party politics, proposes practical rules for exhibitions, and ranges from trade theory and scientific organization to the author’s own Calculating Engines. The opening of the work defends the author’s frank, personal approach in a combative preface, attacks party tactics and governmental small-mindedness, and notes prior advice he gave on the Exhibition’s site and on publishing prices. Babbage then distinguishes universal from general principles, stresses the power of small, repeated causes, and models careful analysis through a simple shovel-and-barrow example. He argues that trade benefits all sides (illustrated by English soles and French uppers), extends the case to multilateral exchange, and links public benefit to secular, practical education. He surveys scientific societies and the British Association’s evolution (including the birth of the Statistical Society), criticizes missed chances to let science lead the Exhibition, and recounts the event’s origin, opposition in fashionable quarters, and the limitations of a commission chaired by a prince. Practical proposals follow: how to price admission, track attendance with turnstiles, improve access, and even move visitors on elevated cars; he defines the Exhibition’s purpose (free interchange), clarifies consumer/producer/middle-man interests, sets boundaries between industrial and fine art (e.g., lace vs. sculpture), assesses site choices, praises Paxton’s Crystal Palace, and begins a sustained case for posting prices—backed by retail anecdotes and the evolution from markets to brokers—to ensure fair competition and help visitors decide what to buy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: John Murray, 1851 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | De Morgan, Augustus, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1806-1871 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Weld, Charles Richard, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1813-1869 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/b21495336">https://archive.org/details/b21495336</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76507">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76507</a> |
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