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Alternatives to industrialisation: The 1851 Great Exhibition - Coggle…
Alternatives to industrialisation:
The 1851 Great Exhibition
Technology
8 months, 2000 men
emodied the spirit of British innovation
and industrial might
New materials, rapidness, efficiency, flat glass, demountable
The first building without
a historical antecedent
high victorian architecture
Meaning
new approach to injecting design into
every aspect of life
Industry
100,000 objects;
15,000 contributors
raw materials
machinery
manufacturers
fine arts
Inventions
Telescope
spinning library
Products
Barrometer
George Meryweather
Image telegraph
Frederick Bakwell
Vertical Prinitng machine
to promote the capabilities of the machine
Sculptures
Exoticism
Department of India
Koh-i-Noor diamond
Visitors
entry was strictly ticket
the place to go
40,000 visitors daily
186,000 profit
all social classes
Legacy
help peoples taste for
the spectacular
free trade
innovation
consumerism
commodity
Great exhibitions
Paris 1889, Tour Eiffel