paris 1900

"The fair's lighting and machinery were powered entirely by dynamos housed in the gaudy Palais de l'Electricité -- the origin of most of the black smoke in the photos. This hulking colonnaded Wurlitzer glowed with 5,000 multicolored "Fairy Lights." Its crown, the Fée de l'Electricité (the Spirit of Electricty), rode in a chariot showering colored sparks and flames."