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suggest that the public did not warmly welcome the idea of the Great

Exhibition in London?

4.2.

mention the person who came up with the name for the building?

4.3.

refer to an event which gave rise to the idea of having the Great Exhibition

in London?

4.4.

point out that the building did not last long?

CRYSTAL PALACE

A. In the autumn of 1850, in Hyde Park in London, there arose a most extraordinary structure:

a giant iron-and-glass greenhouse covering nineteen acres of ground with enough room

for four St. Paul’s Cathedrals. For the short time of its existence, it was the biggest building

on Earth. Known formally as the Palace of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry

of All Nations, it was undeniably magnificent, but all the more so for being so sudden,

so startlingly glassy, so gloriously and unexpectedly there. Douglas Jerrold, a columnist

for the weekly magazine Punch, nicknamed it the Crystal Palace, and the term stuck. It was

pulled down soon after the exhibition ended.

B. The exhibition for which it was conceived was the dream of a civil servant named Henry

Cole, whose other principal claim to history’s attention is as the inventor of the Christmas

card. In 1849, Cole visited the Paris Exhibition and was keen to try something similar

in London, but grander. He got some dominant figures, including Prince Albert, interested

in the concept of such a stunning display, and on January 11, 1850, they held their first

meeting and set the date of the opening for May 1 of the following year.

C. This gave them slightly less than fifteen months to design and erect the building, install tens

of thousands of exhibits from every quarter of the globe, fit out restaurants and restrooms,

employ staff, and do a million other things, in a city whose residents weren’t at all convinced

they wanted such a costly and disruptive event. It seemed an unachievable goal. In an open

competition, 245 designs were submitted and all of them were rejected as unworkable.

Into this unfolding crisis stepped the calm figure of Joseph Paxton. When he learned that the

commissioners of the Great Exhibition in London were struggling to find a design for their

hall, it occurred to him that something like the hothouses he had constructed might work.

adapted from At Home by Bill Bryson

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