1790s
- 1791 - First industrial exhibition in Prague, Klementinum, in 1791 - considerable sophistication of manufacturing methods.
- 1798 - Paris, France - L'Exposition publique des produits de l'industrie française, Paris, 1798. This was the first public industrial exposition in France although earlier in 1798 the Marquis d'Avèze had held a private exposition of handicrafts and manufactured goods at the Maison d'Orsay in the Rue de Varennes and it was this that suggested the idea of a public exposition to François de Neufchâteau, Minister of the Interior for the French Republic.
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