Palace Exhibition In 1851: And at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry, held in rhe Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851 in London in 1851, Americans won three of the five medals awarded for daguerreotypes. Horace Greeley, editor of the New %rk Tribune, wrote from London: "In Daguerreotypes it seems to be conceded that we beat the world,, where excellence and cheapness is both considered-^ all events, England is no where in comparison-and out}
The formal climax to these decades of rapid ndustrialization was the Great Exhibition of the Vorks of Industry of All Nations, opened in 1851 >y Queen Victoria at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851, Joseph 'axton's new marvel of glass and steel in Lon-lon. Visitors came from all over the world to ;aze at the wonders of modern manufacture. At-endance totaled six million. The exhibition sig-laled not only a new prosperity and stability, iut a new mood of Victorian self-confidence, 'he pioneer of the Industrial Revolution had suc-eeded-had avoided civil upheaval and was ready 3 show the world how to combine great material .'ealth with advances in religious toleration, hu-lane legislation, and free institutions. When the ged Duke of Wellington died the next year, it eemed that a previous age had come to its end.
In 1851 the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851 was built in London to house the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, an event under the patronage and active participation of Prince Albert. The profits were immense--equivalent to about [pounds sterling]10 million in today's money--and it was decided to continue the commercial and creative impetus by building a campus devoted to the arts, industry, and science.
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