Welcome to my weekly-ish newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. You can subscribe here: On this day, in 1851, Londoners were finally allowed to enter one of the most spectacular edifices to grace their city. Over the previous months they had watched it spring up in Hyde Park — the largest enclosed structure that had ever been built, and made with three hundred thousand of the largest panes of glass ever produced. Set against the blackened, soot-stained buildings of London, the massive glass edifice gleamed. It soon became known as the Crystal Palace.
Age of Invention: The Power of Exhibitions
Age of Invention: The Power of Exhibitions
Age of Invention: The Power of Exhibitions
Welcome to my weekly-ish newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. You can subscribe here: On this day, in 1851, Londoners were finally allowed to enter one of the most spectacular edifices to grace their city. Over the previous months they had watched it spring up in Hyde Park — the largest enclosed structure that had ever been built, and made with three hundred thousand of the largest panes of glass ever produced. Set against the blackened, soot-stained buildings of London, the massive glass edifice gleamed. It soon became known as the Crystal Palace.