The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1851.

The enormous "Crystal Palace" went from plans to grand opening in just nine months.

The front entrance of the Great Exhibition.

Paxton's "Crystal Palace" enclosed full-grown trees in Hyde Park. Sir Joseph Paxton ( 3 August 1803 &ndash 8 June 1865) was an English Gardener and Architect, best known

The Great Exhibition, also known as Crystal Palace, was an international exhibition that was held in Hyde Park, London, England, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature. Hyde Park is one of the largest Parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Events 533 - Byzantine General Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Expo (short for "exposition" and also known as World Fair and World's Fair) is the name given to various large public exhibitions held since the Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious"

The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was organized by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Fuller, Charles Dilke and other members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce as a celebration of modern industrial technology and design. Sir Henry Cole ( 15 July 1808, Bath, England – 18 April 1882, London, England) was a Civil Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1st Baronet ( 18 February 1810 &ndash 10 May 1869) English Whig Politician, son The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce ( RSA) is a British multi-disciplinary institution based in London. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Technology is a broad concept that deals with a Species ' usage and knowledge of Tools and Crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt Design is used both as a Noun and a Verb. The term is often tied to the various Applied arts and Engineering (See design disciplines It can be argued that the Great Exhibition was mounted in response to the highly successful French Industrial Exposition of 1844. The French Industrial Exposition of 1844, held in a temporary structure on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, was one in a series of eleven French national industrial Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, was an enthusiastic promoter of a self-financing exhibition; the government was persuaded to form the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to establish the viability of hosting such an exhibition. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the international exhibition of 1851 officially called the Great Exhibition of the Works

A special building, nicknamed The Crystal Palace,^[1] was designed by Joseph Paxton (with support from structural engineer Charles Fox) to house the show; an architecturally adventurous building based on Paxton's experience designing greenhouses for the sixth Duke of Devonshire, constructed from cast iron-frame components and glass made almost exclusively in Birmingham and Smethwick, which was an enormous success. The Crystal Palace was a cast-iron and Glass building originally erected in Hyde Park, London, England, to house the Sir Joseph Paxton ( 3 August 1803 &ndash 8 June 1865) was an English Gardener and Architect, best known Structural engineers analyze design plan and research structural components and Structural systems Their work takes account mainly of technical economic and environmental Sir Charles Fox ( 1810-03-11, Derby, United Kingdom – 1874-06-11) was an English Civil engineer and Contractor The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse or hothouse) is a building where plants are cultivated William George Spencer Cavendish 6th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC ( 21 May 1790 – 18 January 1858) was known as the Cast iron usually refers to grey cast iron, but identifies a large group of Ferrous Alloys which solidify with a Eutectic. Glass in the common sense refers to a Hard, Brittle, transparent Solid, such as that used for Windows many Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Smethwick (pronounced 'Smethick' is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The committee overseeing its construction included Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 &ndash 15 September 1859 (ˈɪzəmbɑrd ˈkɪŋdəm brʊˈnɛl was a British Engineer. The massive glass house was 1848 feet (about 563 m) long by 454 feet (about 138 m) wide, and went from plans to grand opening in just nine months. The building was later moved and re-erected in an enlarged form at Sydenham in south London, an area that was renamed Crystal Palace; it was eventually destroyed by fire. Sydenham is a place and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham; although some streets towards Crystal Palace Park and Penge are outside the ward Crystal Palace is a residential area in South London, England named from the erstwhile local landmark The Crystal Palace, which occupied the ^[1]

Six million people – equivalent to a third of the entire population of Great Britain – visited the Exhibition. The Great Exhibition made a surplus of £186,000 which was used to found the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum which were all built in the area to the south of the exhibition, nicknamed "Albertopolis", alongside the Imperial Institute. The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design housing a permanent collection For science museums in general check out Science museum. The Science Museum on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London is part The Natural History Museum is one of three large Museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum Albertopolis is a nickname for the area centered around South Kensington, London, England, between Cromwell Road and Kensington Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine as given in its Royal Charter It is one of only three universities to have reached

The exhibition caused controversy at the time. Some conservatives feared that the mass of visitors might become a revolutionary mob, while radicals such as Karl Marx saw the exhibition as an emblem of the capitalist fetishism of commodities. An emblem is a pictorial Image, abstract or representational that epitomizes a Concept — e Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where This article concerns the concept of fetishism in Anthropology. A commodity is anything for which there is demand but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market Today the Great Exhibition has become a symbol of the Victorian Age, and its thick catalogue illustrated with steel engravings is a primary source for High Victorian design. The musical instrument is spelled Cymbal. A symbol is something --- such as an object, Picture, written word a sound a piece Culture The Victorian fascination with novelty resulted in a deep interest in the relationship between modernity and cultural continuities

Exhibits

• Alfred Charles Hobbs used the exhibition to demonstrate the inadequacy of several respected locks of the day. Alfred Charles Hobbs (1812 &ndash circa December 25, 1891) was an American Locksmith. A lock is a mechanical fastening device which may be used on a Door, Vehicle, or container restricting access to the area or Property enclosed
• Frederick Bakewell demonstrated a precursor to today's Fax machine. Frederick Collier Bakewell ( September 29, 1800 &ndash September 26, 1869) was an English physicist who improved on the concept of Fax (short for facsimile, from Latin fac simile, "make similar" i
• Mathew Brady wins medal for his daguerreotypes. Note that Mathew B Brady spelled his first name with only one "t"
• The Tempest Prognosticator, a barometer using leeches, was demonstrated at the Great Exhibition
• The America's Cup yachting event began with a race held in conjunction with the Great Exhibition. The Tempest Prognosticator, also known as the Leech Barometer, is a 19th century invention by George Merryweather in which Leeches are used in a Barometer History The first barometer is thought to have been built unintentionally by Gasparo Berti, sometime between 1640 and 1643 Leeches are Annelids comprising the Subclass Hirudinea. There are freshwater terrestrial and marine leeches The America’s Cup is the most prestigious Regatta and Match race in the sport of Sailing, and the oldest active Trophy in international
• George Jennings designed the first public conveniences in the Retiring Rooms of the Crystal Palace for which he charged one penny. George Jennings ( 10 November 1810 &ndash 17 April 1882) was an English sanitary engineer and Plumber who invented the first
• The Kohinoor, the world's biggest known diamond at the time. This article is about the Diamond. For the film see Kohinoor. In Mineralogy, diamond is the allotrope of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in

Further reading

• Auerbach, Jeffrey A. The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display, Yale University Press, 1999.
• Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard The Great Exhibition of 1851, 2nd edition, London: HMSO, 1981.
• Greenhalgh, Paul Ephemeral vistas: the expositions universelles, great exhibitions and world's fairs, 1851-1939, Manchester University Press, 1988
• Leapman, Michael. The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation, Headline Books, 2001.
• Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Dickinson Brothers, London, 1854. ^[1]

See also

• List of world's fairs
• Festival of Britain

References

External links

• Prince Albert's speech of 1849, announcing "The Exhibition of 1851"
• "Memorials of the Great Exhibition" Cartoon Series from Punch
• Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and the Great Exhibition
• "In Our Time"BBC radio programme discussing the Great Exhibition and its impact.
• Images from the catalogue on flickr.com
• Charlotte Bronte's account of a visit to the Great Exhibition
• Great Exhibition Collection in the National Art Library
• Watercolours of the Great Exhibition. Flickr is an image and video hosting Website, Web services suite and Online community platform Paintings and Drawings. Victoria and Albert Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design housing a permanent collection Retrieved on 2007-11-13. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St