The Crystal Palace and iron in architecture 

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Advanced electricity tech and engines at display. NO it was Not temporary. Electricity=Electric city. As Versailles and The Marly power plant. 140 fountains uphill.

Wow primitive man. Way to go! 🤯

I should like to be the Greatest Exhibition there ever where

built in 1850 lol

The¡!!!!great exhibition. There where Many worldwide.

This Guy is ridicilous

You're a liar how did they make all that glass in 1850 with only one Institute producing it obvious it's a green house that was converted into a Fairground yes you correctly say that the iron was revolutionary and yes there was older structures and very limited number made of iron in the 1790s you said yourself that in the 1850s was a big revolution ends iron design how come you didn't say this building was said to be built in less than a year with car and buggy technology and you don't mention a single thing bout it being a greenhouse or that there was no industry to make panes of Glass on that scale there is said to be an over 300000 panes of glass which no London's glass maker could have produced and delivered in less than a year to put that place together not only the workers had never worked with that material before but you're saying without any kind of after they were able to move out of the small Glassworks Factory over 800 panel of glass a day to have this building constructed in under a year from 1849 to 1850 there's a massive railway station underneath this building there is no schematics or blueprints or even really who made this building possible the man that is given credit I had no architectual Trading for this being piece of Showmanship in Iron architecture you would think they would have some drawing and schematics on how to purvey the technology There is almost no pictures of them putting in the glass work which is the real industrial revolution of this building and then it suddenly burned down after it was done being used it looks like a green house that was converted you also show the picture of the French before World Fair before it was called a World's Fair in the 1700 pencil drawing you showed had had to stylize the Roman A-frame construction with the curved Stone window frame and all symmetrical it was massive if you look at the scales of people in the courtyard seems a little grand for it just to be torn down especially that beautiful antique fountain I really don't believe that this building was built in the time you said it was it was there before and converted into a swap meet Bazaar inside a greenhouse they had to cover up some of the windows because it was so hot in there it was not meant to be a showcase for modern technology it was a greenhouse from a different civilizations it was already there and reclaimed and repurposed if it wasn't that you would be giving us more technical detail or pictures schematics not just the story with a couple of pencil drawings the real question is how did these unskilled laborers put in over 300,000 panes of glass which was a brand new technology that they couldn't even produce that much class in a year from the one local Glass Works I would like to see your opinion on how they were able to get state-of-the-art pane glass in 1849 when they started building the thank you this kind of philosophy also goes with the Chicago fair at how beautiful it's buildings were and then torn down there are some architecture that we did not create in this history we are given things Don't add up with points of opening industrial technology dates and the construction techniques of buildings they say of the time