#178: The Crystal Palace: America's First World's Fair

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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New York's Crystal Palace seems like something out of a dream, a shimmering and spectacular glass-and-steel structure -- a gigantic greenhouse -- which sat in the area of today's Bryant Park. In 1853 this was the home to the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, a dizzying presentation of items, great and small, meant to exemplify mankind's industrial might. We take you on a breathtaking tour of the Palce and its legendary exhibition, including the Latting Observatory (the tallest building in New York!) Whatever happened to the Crystal Palace? And what inventions contained within do we still benefit from today? www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 178.
0:02.5	The Crystal Palace.
0:04.1	America's First World's Fair.
0:06.5	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
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0:21.8	Hi there, welcome to the Bowry Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:24.5	And this is Tom Myers.
0:25.9	And today, we're taking you to a New York
0:28.3	that may seem like it's taken from an old science fiction novel
0:32.7	and an extraordinary glass and steel palace
0:36.0	that contained the world's most marvelous inventions.
0:39.4	But this is not science fiction.
0:41.4	It's the New York Crystal Palace,
0:43.4	home of America's First World's Fair,
0:45.5	or as they called it back then,
0:47.2	the exhibition of the industry of all nations.
0:50.5	And this exhibit created great excitement,
0:53.3	not just in New York, but throughout the country
0:56.6	and around the world.
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