The New York Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace in New York: A wonderful exhibition of art and industry "Crystal Palace depicts a part of the era, which represents the comfort and luxury that civilization is enjoying, etiquette and rumors" - B. Silliman & CR Goodrich (Science, Art, Industry, New York, Crystal Palace, 1854) On July 14, 1853, in New York City, New York City, exhibitions of art and industry began in commemoration of Art Palace and Central Exhibition Hall It was.

("Capture History" is a four-part series on the history and theory of museums and exhibition catalogs, centering on Crystal Palace held in New York in 1853. In the first part, regarding this type of early history In Part 2 we will discuss the catalogs and guides detailed by Crystal Palace in New York in 1853 and the third part considers the catalog as a physical digital object and examines each format Content availability, encouragement and acceptability In part 4, we will explore the Crystal Palace catalog as digital objects using digital humanities science tools, what can we do when we open the catalog to the database?

In 1852, Elisha Otis announced a safety elevator that prevents the cab from falling even if the cable breaks. He showed it at the Crystal Palace's New York Fair in 1854. In the dramatic and monumental demonstration of 1854, the first such passenger elevator was set up on 488 Broadway Street in New York on 23 March 1857. The first elevator shaft preceded the first elevator for four years. Construction of the Cooper Union Foundation building of Peter Cooper in New York began in 1853. Cooper included the elevator shaft as it was convinced that a safe passenger elevator would soon be invented. As Cooper thinks it is the most efficient design, the shaft is cylindrical. Later, Otis designed a special elevator for the building.

In 1854, in front of a group of spectators and reporters at the Crystal Palace in New York, he cut the elevator cable and the elevator was locked in place without falling. This rack and pinion safety lock runs between the rail and the elevator, and if it moves too fast, it is still in use today - (France, Institut Francais D'Architecture; 1995: 70 The world's first elevator for passengers was established by Otis in the fifth store of EV Haughwout & Company in New York in 1857 (Tell Me About Elevators.Farmington, CT: Otis Elevator Company, 1974: 11)