The Industrial Revolutionaries by Gavin Weightman

Author:Gavin Weightman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: 2007-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

THE PALACE OF WONDERS

There is but one opinion on the merits of this construction … It is elegant, simple, imposing, and convenient; it is inundated with light, and easy of approach. Every contingency has been provided against: rain cannot penetrate, nor fire destroy. Steam was necessary to put in motion the numerous engines and machinery established in the mechanical division, for it was thought better to enable the public to see the machinery in motion; there are pipes which distribute steam where it is wanted, and vast boilers have been erected in an adjacent building, which afford an abundant and constant supply … An electric telegraph is there to convey each moment to a central bureau all communications that may be desired … When one reflects that all this has been conceived, adopted, moulded, cast, adjusted, placed, and covered with glass in the space of a few months, we fancy ourselves to be in fairy-land. The Crystal Palace would have been an impossibility elsewhere than in England.1

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