The Crystal Palace and The Great Exhibition

In the Mid-nineteenth century in 1851 there was The Great International Exhibition in london, this was made to show the industrial , military and economic to give more importance to the Great Britain. Even The building that had been built for this Great Exhibition was brilliant with the engineering.We can see that this design was inspired by The Victorian Architecture and Moorish designs.As an original  sketch it was made by Sir Joseph Paxton`s and a design had an enfecy on the construction of the roof that was made with glass and iron vaulted.

The Great Exhibition was a history from the start because it was made in a very short time. This was made by Henry Cole , he was a member of the Society of Art  but then he stopped and begin supporting Sir Robert Peel.To attract the people Cole got Prince Albert back to the royal in the 1851 and told them that is was his idea , and by that they will attract more people. Even this wasnt the Prince idea it helped because he was a dedicated person to his word and hard-working man. There was an expert that talked in a speech in march 1850 to reach some support so they can continue in The Exhibition. 

This exhibition was made so they can make better level of industrial production in bigger markets. It was open in Hyde Park for five months and fifteen days and it was the biggest exhibition in the history. There was about six million people that has visited and they came to see some of the inovitev machines by fourteen thousand exhibitors that where made into sections.


When they first opened this exhibition they had a high price and after a month they lowered it a bit and that`s why they had a lot of visits . After a century and a half they took about £506,100, one third of the expenses that they made to build the Crystal Palace and to make the exhibition.


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