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International Electrical Congress
Year Congress or Exhibition Location Date
1881 International Electrical Congress, Held in connection with the International Exposition of Electricity (first International Exposition of Electricity) Paris, France 15 Sept. – 5 Oct.
1893 International Electrical Congress, Held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, IL 21-25 Aug.
1900 International Electrical Congress, Held in connection with the Paris Exposition Universelle Paris, France 18-25 Aug.
1904 International Electrical Congress, Held in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis, MO 12-17 Sept.
Concurrent Related International Electrical Congresses
Year Congress or Exhibition Location Date
1882 Conférence international pour la détermination des unités électriques (International Conference for Determination of Electrical Units) Paris, France 16-26 Oct.
1884 International Conference for Determination of Electrical Units Paris, France
1889 International Congress of Electricians. Held in connection with Exposition Universelle de 1889. Paris, France 24-31 Aug.
1891 Held in connection with the International Electrotechnical Exhibition Frankfurt, German 7-12 Sept
1892 Held in connection with the British Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting Edinburgh, Scotland
1896 In connection with the Swiss National Exposition Geneva, Switzerland 4-9 Aug.
International Electrotechnical Congress
Year Congress or Exhibition Location Date
1908 International Conference on Electric Units and Standards. London, England Oct.
1911 Organized by Associazione elettrotecnica italiana and the Italian Electrotechnical Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission Turin, Italy 10-17 Sept.
1915 Organized by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers San Francisco, CA Scheduled to be held 13-18 Sept., but cancelled because of the outbreak of WWI
Related International Electrotechnical Conferences
Year Congress or Exhibition Location Date
1905 International Conference on Electrical Units, (15 persons invited, 13 participated) Berlin, Germany 23-25 Oct.
1908 Held in connection with the L'exposition internationale des applications de l'électricité. Marseille, France 14-19 Sept.
International Electricity Exhibitions
Year Congress or Exhibition Location Date
1881 first International Exposition of Electricity Exposition internationale d'Électricité (International Congress of Electricians held in conjunction with it.), International Paris Electrical Exposition Paris, France 15 Aug. – 15 Nov., Displayed the advances in electrical technology since the small electrical display at the 1878 Universal Exposition
1882 Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1882 London, England
1883 Berlin Exposition of 1883 Berlin, Germany
1884 International Electrical Exhibition (Franklin Institute), Franklin Institute International Electrical Exhibition Philadelphia, PA First great electrical exhibition in the USA
1888 Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States Cincinnati, OH 4 July – 27 Oct.
1889 Summer Carnival and Electric Exhibition St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
1889 Universal Exposition of 1889 Paris, France
1892 Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1892 London, England
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis, MO 30 Apr. – 1 Dec.
1915 Panama Pacific Exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and the four hundredth anniversary of the European discovery of the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco, CA 20 Feb. – 4 Dec.