The World Expo
The world’s first fair was held in the UK on May 1, 1851. At that time the British is already the world’s leading country, no one doubts the power of the United Kingdom, as a strong and huge calls for British forces held its first session of the World’s Fair. Queen Victoria issued a diplomatic invitation letter, there are 10 countries accepted the invitation. Seriously stereotyped Englishman spent the country’s economic strength for the next World’s Fair exhibit. Victorian architectural style is cumbersome, mostly for the huge stone structures. At the World’s Fair, the British changed the previous style, in the famous Hyde company built of steel and glass Crystal Palace as the main construction materials. Crystal Palace 1700 feet, 100 feet high, consumes 4,500 tons of steel, 10 hectares of glass.
The first session of the World Expo in crowded atmosphere of the opening, in an area of 96,000 square meters of exhibition in the exhibition with a table length of about 13 km, in 23-week exhibition period, there are 6.3 million people had visited. 14000 products on display included a 24 tons weight of coal, a big James Bond from India drilling, there is an elephant specimens, while the engine, hydraulic presses, textile machinery and then the visitors to the modern industrial development and human shine with unlimited imagination.
The World Expo is not only a “dazzling, colorful,” the display, but also opened up over the next few decades a pioneer of free trade to humans foreshadowed the era of industrial production, all the exhibits are representative of the modern industrial development and the human imagination. Therefore, the London Expo is recognized as the modern sense, the first World Expo. Crystal Palace Exposition of the twentieth century, the great driving force of science and progress, and its subsequent success of the World Expo and the Olympic Games as a global-scale event, the World Expo so called “economic, technological and cultural circles of the Olympic event.”
