At the World's Faire

I first went to the booth about Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone and founder the American Scientific Journal. The telephone allows people to communicate over long distances, an improvement to the older telegraph because it doesn't require knowledge of morse code. Bell patented the telephone in 1876. The challenge was to convert intermittent currents into continuous currents, which Bell eventually achieved through the use of electrical wires and a routing network. Along with the telephone, Bell also invented the Graphophone and the hydroplane fins, which improved the phonograph and helped aquatic vessels, respectively.

I then went to the modern medicine booths – one of the most impressive exhibits there. There was an x-ray machine, which allowed doctors to catch diseases quickly and more effectively, and save lives. It also increased knowledge of diseases all over the world, which transformed 19th-century medicine – no longer will doctors use sloppy surgeries, but the profession is becoming more pristine and precise.

The art nouveau booth was the most magnificent of them all, using superfluous curves and intricate linear designs in natural form, a "new art" that became prominent during the Belle Epoch. Alphonse Mucha, a famous Czech artist is a leader of this art style along with Antonio Gaudí from Spain, who worked with individualized and distinctive styles. This style created design reform, trying to create an international style based on decor and promoting harmony in creation with new materials and innovation.

The last booth was about photography, the invention of the Kodak camera by George Eastman, an American inventor. His quest was to make photography "as easy [to use] as a pencil" (and he succeeded). The Kodak Camera allows the common person to partake in the complicated art of photography just by clicking a button. Kodak photography eventually evolved into film, and frames were stitched together one after another to create a moving image – an amazing invention!