Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations

New York Crystal Palace, architect Charles Gildemeister. Colored oil pressure by George Baxter, London, 1853

The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was held in 1853 and 1854 in New York. She was the model of the successful first World's Fair, the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 oriented and also had a Crystal Palace as an exhibition building.

Chairman of the Exhibition Committee was of the shipping business and Mayor Jacob Aaron Westervelt. Exhibition was today's Bryant Park. The London Crystal Palace very similar exhibition building was the work of the German architect Karl Gildemeister and the Dane Georg Carstensen.

President Franklin Pierce opened the building and the exhibition on 14 July 1853. Walt Whitman published to an enthusiastic poem. Approximately four thousand exhibitors industrial and consumer products and crafted objects .. The exhibition lasted until 1 November 1854, and had more than one million visitors. They stimulated a significant extent on tourism, especially the hotel construction, but finished with a loss of $ 300,000 from. The exhibition showcased to 1854 Elisha Graves Otis the functioning of his safety elevator. David age showed a method of production of bromine salt. Attention was a Quadracycle, a pedal -powered four-wheeled vehicle.

The New York Crystal Palace fell on October 5, 1858 a major fire.