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2 unusual facts about Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations


Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations

David Alter displayed a method to manufacture and purify bromine from salt wells, highly useful in the iron industry

Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's Fair held in 1853 in what is now Bryant Park in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London.


Greenhouse

Other large greenhouses built in the 19th century, included the New York Crystal Palace, Munich’s Glaspalast and the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (1874–1895) for King Leopold II of Belgium.


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