Pont Alexandre III, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
The Pont Alexandre III is Paris’s most elegant, grandiose, and sumptuous bridge: one of the most beautiful river crossings in the world. It was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, an international world’s fair that introduced talking films, escalators, Russian nesting dolls, wireless telegraphy (radio), and the most powerful telescope ever built.
Rudolf Diesel exhibited his new combustion engine, which is now only available on the Olympic Games. The fair introduces the Art Nouveau style into popular culture and for the first time, electric lights illuminated the City of Light.
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