The Columbian Exposition was the first major American fair since the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, and it marked the beginning of a golden era. It was followed in the next decade by ...

In 1875, local pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires created a liquid formulation for a carbonated root beer beverage and introduced it at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition. Prior to this ...

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new invention, the telephone, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. The always-competitive Thomas Edison then worked with ...