| Main Performers | Clifford C Paterson,
Mrs Paterson |
| Orchestra or Band | Royal Engineers String Band |
| Set List | March: 'The Triumph of Right', Novell (Royal Engineers String Band),
Overture: 'The Mill on The Cliff', Reissiger (Royal Engineers String Band),
Scenes from Iolanthe, Sullivan (Royal Engineers String Band),
Valse: 'Moonlight on The Alster', Fetras (Royal Engineers String Band),
'Petite Suite De Concert', Coleridge-Taylor (Royal Engineers String Band),
'Minuet In G', Beethoven (Royal Engineers String Band),
'Gopak', Moussorgsky (Royal Engineers String Band),
Melodies: 'Song of the Drum', Ellis (Royal Engineers String Band),
'Petite Rhapsodie Russe', Olsen (Royal Engineers String Band),
Excerpts: 'Thro Field and Forest', Eilenberg (Royal Engineers String Band),
Valse: 'Tales of the Vienna Forest', Strauss (Royal Engineers String Band),
Selection: 'The Vagabond King', Friml (Royal Engineers String Band),
Intermezzo: 'Pense A Moi', Wurm (Royal Engineers String Band),
'Dance of The Tumblers 'Snow Maiden'', Rimsky-Korsakov (Royal Engineers String Band),
Fantasia: 'Bitter Sweet', Coward (Royal Engineers String Band),
Finale: 'A Day In Naples', Byng (Royal Engineers String Band),
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) (Royal Engineers String Band),
The Faraday Lecture (William Cramp),
The Birth of Electrical Engineering |
| Performance Notes | The Exhibition celebrated 100 years of chemical and electrical achievement.
The Great Floor was laid for the event covered in brown coco matting. A reproduction of Faraday's laboratory was ereted in the Kings Room (Royal Retiring Room). A velarium entirely covering the roof and core in white and yellow madras muslin deigned by John Edgington was hung. An electric centre fitting in three tiers hung in the centre of the hall by te Edison Swan Company. Electric fittings on each pier between gallery and cornice. Machinery for making electric lamps, liquid air plant and working models stood on the Great Floor.
"Most ambitious of the exhibits is the huge canopy that covers the roof of the hall. This canopy, made of specifically glazed Lancashire cotton and worth about £1,000, reflects the 500,000 candle-power illumination from 200 projectors. A hundred women worked for a month to sew the canopy, and the difficult task of hositing it into position took a week and employed forty sailors and expert tentmakers.
WORLD'S GREATEST LIGHT.
This shadowless interior illumination, of a candle-power never before achieved in any building, will cost £20 a say in current; the total value of the lamps used is more than £500.
...Beside... [a Central Electricty Board] map is a complete model town run by electricity. Electricity drives the machines in its factories, works a laundry, illuminates the signs of a cinema, and lights, the streets and houses. Another exhibit shows the domestic uses of electricty, from simple lighting to the furnishing of a complete hot-water system.
At the opposite end of the scale from these big displays is an exhibit of minute springs of moving coil measuring insturments. They are of tempered steel finer than horsehair, and 1,400 of them weigh less than a pound.
A private view of the exhibition was held last night, when a conversazione was given by the Intsitution of Electrical Engineers. Guests were received by the president, Mr Clifford C Paterson and Mrs Paterson."
(The Daily Telegraph, 23 September 1931) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1931/64),
Ticket (RAHE/8/5/1931/1),
Ephemera - Souvenir Catalogue (RAHE/8/2/6) |