The Great Exhibition

A Philosopher Karl Marx and naturalist Charles Darwin may once have rubbed shoulders as they gazed upon the world's largest diamond. Just metres away, authors Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot may have passed one another as they used the world's first pay toilets. Where could these encounters have taken place? Only at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (usually just called the Great Exhibition), one of the most impressive spectacles ever st...