The Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened in Hyde Park on 1 May 1851 in Joseph Paxton's prefabricated iron and glass building, itself an industrial product assembled from standard components in months. Around six million admissions were taken over the season, many of them by excursion train — the railway network being what made a national audience possible. Its surplus funded the museums and colleges of South Kensington. It is best read as the moment Britain chose to display the transition as an accomplished fact, at the very point when its industrial lead was about to be contested.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- The British railway network · network · United Kingdom · not located
- The British textile industry · industry sector · United Kingdom · not located
- London · city · United Kingdom
Evidence
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Supports the high-wage-economy explanation of why mechanisation was profitable in Britain first, the sequence of textile bottlenecks, and the dating and interpretation of the Engels pause. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — outbound HTTP to research domains is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before this pack began. The book is a real and widely held title, but nothing attributed to it here was read from it.
Cambridge University Press · 2009 · Partly verified
Robert C. Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (New Approaches to Economic and Social History)
Recorded on The British railway network
- Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
- Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
- Hargreaves devises the spinning jenny
- Boston Tea Party
- Crompton completes the spinning mule
- The rotative engine turns a shaft
- Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
- Cartwright patents the power loom
- Arkwright's patents are overturned
- The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
- The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
- First Assam tea auctioned in London
- The Great Exhibition
- The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
- The first London Marathon
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- The first London Marathon · 1981-03-29
- The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards · 1908-07-24
- First Assam tea auctioned in London · 1839-01-10
- The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction · 6–14 October 1829
- The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens · 1825-09-27
- Cartwright patents the power loom · 1785
- Arkwright's patents are overturned · 1785
- Commutation Act cuts British tea duty · 1784