00:00On le 1 de May 1851, le Grand Exhibition s'ouvre par Queen Victoria.
00:08Her husband, Prince Albert, led le développement de l'exhibition,
00:12qui était le premier de son type.
00:14C'était un peu comme un grand museum,
00:16full de choses intéressantes de l'objet de l'environnement.
00:20Le Grand Exhibition s'ouvre en Londres Hyde Park,
00:24dans un building qui s'est appelé le Crystal Palace,
00:27parce que l'amont de l'eau utilisée pour construire l'eau,
00:31et il a attracté des gens de tout le monde.
00:34Visitors even came from overseas,
00:36from as far away as America, China, Trinidad, Australia, India, Ceylon, Jamaica, Malta.
00:44There were over 100,000 objects on display.
00:48Exhibits from Britain and its colonies filled one half of the building
00:52and the rest of the world, the other half.
00:54The famous author, Charlotte Bronte, could not believe her eyes.
01:00Whatever human industry has created, you find there.
01:04Railway engines and boilers, mill machinery,
01:07splendid carriages of all kinds,
01:10glass-covered stands loaded with the most gorgeous work of gold and silversmiths,
01:15carefully guarded caskets full of real diamonds and pearls
01:18worth thousands of pounds.
01:24In the British section, there were manufactured goods,
01:28such as silk and cotton, cutlery, hand tools, surgical instruments and much more.
01:36At a time when few had ever been abroad,
01:40a tour around the exhibition was like a tour around the world.
01:44Visitors could go and see displays from China or Turkey or Tunisia
01:49or wherever they wished.
01:52But possibly the most impressive and popular of all was India.
01:58Here, they could see some of the star attractions,
02:01like Queen Victoria's magnificent howdah, a gift from an Indian prince.
02:06The howdah is a covered seat for those who wish to travel on an elephant.
02:11Also in the Indian section is to be found the most valuable object in the whole exhibition,
02:18the Great Diamond, the Koh-i-Noor, or Mountain of Light.
02:29More than six million people visited the exhibition,
02:32and after six months, on the 11th of October, 1851, it closed.
02:38The exhibition made a profit,
02:40and Prince Albert used this money to buy land in South Kensington.
