It burned down in 1936 after 85 years’ service hosting events and exhibitions. Its finest season was also its first when, in 1851, it was purpose built to house the Great Exhibition. Not here ...

Stretching 1,851 feet long and 128 feet high ... The British Nave at the Great Exhibition. The exhibits were grouped into four principal themes: Machinery, Manufactures, Fine Arts and Raw Materials.

Britain's Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations took place from May 1 to Oct. 11, 1851. Intended to showcase ... On display were 13,000 exhibits from Britain, its colonies ...

In a spectacular temporary exhibition building in Hyde Park more than 100,000 exhibits were put on display. On May 1 1851 Queen Victoria opened the Great Exhibition. By the time it closed on ...

The Great Exhibition of 1851 brought together the latest of the world’s marvels. And your local shopping mall has nothing on the Crystal Palace, the immense structure that housed the Exhibition.

Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition, London, 1851 Work on Crystal Palace began ... To the Victorian public, the exhibits were awe-inspiring. A “Machines in Motion” hall mesmerized ...

The original Great Exhibition took place in 1851 at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, and built on a long and successful tradition of using exhibitions of industry to demonstrate the latest ...

The report of the Board of Management, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, dated December 1946 ... re-examine the position when industry in Great Britain and its pattern of recruitment ...

Simply because her manufacturers take pains to show their work, through the means of exhibitions great and ... or Pennsylvania engines to the great exhibition? We know that American engines ...

AT the 148th meeting of the Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, held on May 6 ... were absorbed in the national war effort. So great was the demand for the Commission's experienced research ...