SYMHC Classics: Paxton's Crystal Palace

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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A throwback to 2013! Sir Joseph Paxton was a 19th-century botanist who became instantly famous for the hall he designed for the Great Expo of 1851. After the expo, the Crystal Palace moved to a new location and became the centerpiece of the world's first theme park.

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0:33.1	Happy Saturday.
0:34.6	This week we talked about Andrew Crosses fascinating and eccentric electricity experiments.
0:41.3	And toward the end, we mentioned that he and his second wife took a trip
0:45.1	to the great exposition of 1851, which was housed in Paxton's Crystal Palace.
0:51.0	So naturally, this seemed like a good time to bring back our episode on the Crystal Palace.
0:55.1	That episode came out all the way back on August 21, 2013.
0:59.4	And at the end of that episode, we mentioned a 2013 plan to rebuild it.
1:03.9	That effort failed.
1:04.9	But as of 2018, the developer hoped it still might work out one day.
1:09.2	I can only presume a pandemic put those plans on the back burner for some time.
1:14.3	Yeah, I was not able to find an update more recently than 2018.
1:19.3	So we shall see.
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