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Ceramic souvenir of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nation's Crystal Palace. The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, or Great Exhibition, was held in England ...
Speculators on 'Change are evidently not satisfied with the opening of our great Exhibition. The stock has fallen steadily and somewhat rapidly. On Thursday, the day before the opening, it sold at ...
The motives and objects of those who visit the CRYSTAL PALACE, will be almost as various as the individuals themselves. Thousands will go thither for the mere gratification of curiosity,--for the ...
How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly New study finds it was the earliest-known building to use a standard screw thread.
This article was originally published with the title “The Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 6 No. 19(January 1851), p. 149doi:10.1038 ...
The Crystal Palace was originally constructed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, in central London, before being dismantled and rebuilt in south-east London in 1854, where it remained until it ...
All these items once sat inside the Crystal Palace.
The Crystal Palace was constructed as a centerpiece for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain ...
Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition, London, 1851 Work on Crystal Palace began on August 1, 1850 and, defying skeptics, Joseph Paxton completed the magnificent structure just in time for ...
The main reason for the weird mish-mash of park features is that back in 1851, the park was chosen as the new site for The Crystal Palace, which had held the world-famous Great Exhibition in Hyde ...
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations Souvenir Pot. Object has a multi-colored transfer print of the Exhibition's opening ceremony featuring Queen Victoria, held in the Crystal ...