A study published in The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology now has solved the mystery.

A new study has revealed that London's Crystal Palace was built in just 190 days thanks to a now standard innovation - the ...

Britain's Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations took place from May 1 to Oct. 11, 1851. Intended to showcase the industrial and cultural products of the world, it drew ...

Copper from Cornwall, a hand-drill from Hampshire, elephant teeth from Sudan, and snuff-boxes from Switzerland. The Great Exhibition of 1851 included some 13,000 natural and man-made objects in the ...

New research has solved the mystery of how the Crystal Palace in London, which at the time was the world's largest building, was constructed in only 190 days and completed just in time for the start ...

New research has answered the mystery of how the Crystal Palace in London, which at the time was the world's largest building, was constructed in only 190 days.

IF anyone thought the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park in London, which celebrated the Works of Industry of all Nations was the last word in exhibitions, then 1876 would have come as a ...

(Paxton wanted a symbolic 1851 feet in length ... who formally opened the Great Exhibition, told her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, that it was "astonishing , a fairy scene.

The study, led by Professor John Gardner of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), has discovered that the Crystal Palace was the ...

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Completed just in time for the start of the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was a powerful symbol of Victorian Britain’s industrial might. Over 560 metres long and with a giant ...

The study, led by Professor John Gardner of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), has discovered that the Crystal Palace was the ...