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The discovery of gold in Australia in 1851 coincided with the height of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. This was the year of Queen Victoria’s ‘Great Exhibition’ a ‘World Fair’ themed event which showcased the innovative industrial technologies of the day, with more than half the 100,000 exhibits on display originating from Britain or the British Empire.
Running from May to October 1851, the equivalent of a third of Britain’s population at the time, some six million people, passed through the doors to get a peek at almost every marvel of the Victorian age, including pottery, porcelain, ironwork, furniture, perfumes, pianos, firearms, fabrics, steam hammers and hydraulic presses.
(Great Exhibition of 1851, n.d.)
Many of these newly enlightened minds would join the mass migration to the Australian goldfields bringing with them the knowledge skills and experience gained by the technologlical advancements of the Industrial revolution with many having worked in factories and ridden steam trains, firm in the belief that the ‘Age of Steam’ had made Britain the most powerful nation on Earth, and could have a similar impact on Australia.
(How When WHy The Industrial Revolution in Australia, n.d.)
The Australian gold rush saw the acceleration, expansion and redirection of the evolutionary paths of communication and transportation technologies and with it the reach of the American and British Empires.
The proliferation of telegraph wires, steamships, and railroads proceeded in the wake of the rush; minor ports became major international metropolises for goods and migrants.
(How the Gold Rushes Helped the Modern World, n.d.)
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The front entrance of the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London that housed the Great Exhibition of 1851, the first World's Fair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Palace.PNG
'The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Image_taken_from_page_237_of_%27The_Half_Hour_Library_of_Travel,_Nature_and_Science_for_young_readers%27_(11237196445).jpg
Lloyd's Recollections of the Great Exhibition 1851
https://kimberlyevemusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-great-exhibition-of-1851-held-at.html
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, home to the Great Exhibition of 1851
https://kimberlyevemusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-great-exhibition-of-1851-held-at.html
Crystal Palace - interior
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Palace_-_interior.jpg
View from the Knightsbridge Road of The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851 Dedicated to the Royal Commissioners., London: Read & Co. Engravers & Printers, 1851.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition#/media/File:The_Crystal_Palace_in_Hyde_Park_for_Grand_International_Exhibition_of_1851.jpg
Photograph of a triangular shaped machinery on two feet with a central shaft. Inscribed `J. Nasmyth's patent' and `J. Nasmyth & Co Engineers, Manchester'.
This photograph is from Volume II (RCIN 2800001) of ' Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided'. The incredibly successful Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, commonly known as the Great Exhibition, ran from May to October 1851. At the exhibition's conclusion, over 100 copies of the four volume 'Reports by the Juries' were distributed to foreign governments and notable participants. The reports consist of the juries' comments and assessments of the works displayed in the exhibition. The idea and decision to illustrate the reports with photographs is attributed to Prince Albert (1819-61).
Provenance - Presented to Queen Victoria
https://www.rct.uk/collection/2800024/the-great-exhibition-1851-steam-hammer-by-nasmyth
Mounted Calotype depicting a scene from the Great Exhibition of 1851. From Henry Fox Talbot's presentation report, Spicer Brothers, Wholesale Stationers, W. Clowes & Sons, Printers, 1852.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Exhibition,_Agricutlural_Implements_2,_HF_Talbot,_1851.jpg
1851: Steam Engine by B Hick and Son
https://www.rct.uk/collection/2800011/the-great-exhibition-1851-steam-engine-by-b-hick-and-son
Photograph of Locomotive No. 1, Sydney
https://collection.maas.museum/object/324392
This image is especially relevant to the Powerhouse Museum collections as it is the earliest photographic record of Australia's first Locomotive. Appropriately named Locomotive No. 1, this train is now part of the Powerhouse Collection. This locomotive arrived in Sydney in February 1855 and worked on the NSW rail lines until March 1877 when it was withdrawn from operation after having travelled more than 250,000 kms.
Steam locomotive with a group of men gathered around it, ca. 1880
https://digital.slq.qld.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?change_lng=en&dps_pid=IE1186113
Locomotief van Crampton op de Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations van 1851 in het Crystal Palace in Londen, Claude-Marie Ferrier (attributed to), 1851
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-F25213-E
