Crystal Palace

So I've always wanted to go visit a World's Fair.

And I think specifically if I could time travel, I would want to go to the 1851 World's Fair in London, which was inside this really beautiful Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.

And so it has these giant glass walls with a lot of natural light.

And because it was in a park and they didn't want to cut down a lot of the giant elm trees that were in the park, they kept some of the trees inside the actual glass enclosure so the building itself would be really, really cool to see.

And that was terrifying because, you know, we'd both had jobs.

I got a job eventually in London on a hi-fi magazine in Crystal Palace, Upper Norwood.

And so I was commuting 90 minutes each way every day.

I was still in London.

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In 1851, at the Great Exhibition in London's Crystal Palace, a new technology captured the public's imagination, particularly among the wealthy.

It was a wearable, an early ancestor of biohacking, and it promised to boost concentration, memory, and mathematical ability to increase focus and productivity, along with a whole constellation of other physical and mental benefits.

Charles Dickens reportedly ordered one to get him through his endless reading tours.

First, it was a national thing in England, then it became an international phenomenon.

In 1909, a rally of scouts was held at Crystal Palace in London, where Robert met with some of the first girls who were scouts.

The girls arrived late, having gate-crashed the event without tickets, and had shown up to the rally dressed in scout uniforms, the same as the boys.

There were already around 6,000 girls registered as Boy Scouts at this time.

As Agnes grew into adulthood, she showed a real talent for music, just like her brother, but Agnes played the organ, piano, and violin.

She was also incredibly interested in natural history and astronomy, and she kept bees, birds, and butterflies in their home.

After the event at Crystal Palace, Robert began to think of a Girl Guides group as being a very good idea.

The majority opinion of the time was that activities shouldn't be co-ed, and Robert was pressured to start specific groups for girls.

The notion and name of scientific instruments first appeared in France in the late 18th century, in Germany in the 1830s, England in 1847.

It took hold after the 1851 Great Exhibition at London's Crystal Palace.

In the German, French, Austrian, and American displays, scientific instruments encompassed research and teaching devices.

Not so the English displays, you saw that coming.