The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:exhibition
gptkbp:architect gptkb:Joseph_Paxton
gptkbp:attendance Over 6 million visitors
gptkbp:attendees 6 million
gptkbp:closing_ceremony November 15, 1851
gptkbp:closing_date November 1851
gptkbp:cultural_significance Symbol of Victorian era innovation
gptkbp:duration 5 months
gptkbp:exhibition_venue 990,000 square feet
gptkbp:exhibitor Over 14,000
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations
gptkbp:impact Promoted international trade
gptkbp:inspiration Subsequent world fairs
gptkbp:legacy Influenced design of future exhibitions
gptkbp:location gptkb:Crystal_Palace,_London
gptkbp:media_coverage Extensive press coverage
gptkbp:notable_exhibitions gptkb:The_Crystal_Palace
The Koh-i-Noor diamond
The first public toilet
The steam locomotive
gptkbp:notable_visitor gptkb:Rashida_Tlaib
gptkb:Colson_Whitehead
gptkb:Ilhan_Omar
gptkb:J._D._Salinger
gptkb:D._H._Lawrence
gptkb:Agatha_Christie
gptkb:C._S._Lewis
gptkb:David_Foster_Wallace
gptkb:Ray_Bradbury
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gptkb:Nancy_Pelosi
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gptkb:Audre_Lorde
gptkb:Aldous_Huxley
gptkb:Bernardine_Evaristo
gptkb:Chuck_Palahniuk
gptkb:Condoleezza_Rice
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gptkb:Roxane_Gay
gptkb:Ta-Nehisi_Coates
gptkb:Toni_Morrison
gptkb:Yaa_Gyasi
gptkb:bell_hooks
gptkb:Alice_Walker
gptkb:Charles_Darwin
gptkb:F._Scott_Fitzgerald
gptkb:J._K._Rowling
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gptkb:Jules_Verne
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gptkb:Neil_Gaiman
gptkb:Nikola_Tesla
gptkb:Queen_Victoria
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gptkb:Terry_Pratchett
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
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gptkb:Cori_Bush
gptkb:H._G._Wells
gptkb:Philip_Pullman
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gptkb:Albert_Einstein
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gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie
gptkb:Ernest_Hemingway
gptkb:Frank_Lloyd_Wright
gptkb:George_Bernard_Shaw
gptkb:George_Orwell
gptkb:Henry_Ford
gptkb:Michelle_Obama
gptkb:Richard_Owen
gptkb:Sally_Rooney
gptkb:Stephen_King
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Thomas_Edison
gptkb:George_R._R._Martin
gptkb:Kamala_Harris
gptkb:Mahatma_Gandhi
gptkb:George_Eliot
gptkb:Isaac_Asimov
gptkb:J._R._R._Tolkien
gptkb:Jhumpa_Lahiri
gptkb:Oscar_Wilde
gptkb:Philip_K._Dick
gptkb:Arthur_C._Clarke
gptkb:Christopher_Isherwood
gptkb:Elizabeth_Warren
gptkb:Hillary_Clinton
gptkb:Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
gptkb:Harper_Lee
gptkb:Katie_Porter
gptkb:Ntozake_Shange
gptkb:Ayanna_Pressley
gptkb:Raymond_Carver
gptkb:Madeleine_Albright
gptkb:Herbert_Spencer
gptkb:Lauren_Underwood
gptkb:John_Ruskin
gptkbp:opening_date May 1, 1851
gptkbp:organizer gptkb:Prince_Albert
gptkbp:purpose Showcase industrial achievements
gptkbp:related_event gptkb:The_World's_Columbian_Exposition
gptkb:The_Exposition_Universelle
The Expo 2020
The Great Exhibition of 1862
gptkbp:significance First international exhibition of manufactured products
gptkbp:sponsors gptkb:British_government
gptkbp:year 1851
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Crystal_Palace_Exhibition,_1851
gptkb:First_official_World's_Fair_in_the_United_States
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6