TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM
For people in those days, expositions were places for encountering the new civilization and also amusement. People flocked to see trains, cars, fountains, illuminations, etc. In the Second Industrial Exposition held in Ueno Park, Saetaro Oki (formerly a staff member of the machine-building division in the Ministry of Industry) of Meikosha is said to have produced a carbon telephone and showed it at the exposition.