received a knighthood after winning a huge success with a giant water lily found in 1837 in British Guiana. It is believed to be the largest flowering plant in the world. Victorian botanist described it as "a wonder plant
." After its discovery all English gardeners began to compete to see who could grow the first Victoria amazonica on British soil. GaNó Paxton. Your water lily floating in a special pond at Chatsworth. He leaves two meters in diameter, larger than a squash flower and smells like pineapple. The flowering of the plant was an event so memorable Queen Victoria and Prince Albert went to Chatsworth to contemplate. Once, for fun, Paxton and the Duke disguised as fairy bachelor
Annie, the daughter of Paxton, who was seven, she was placed on one of the huge giant water lily leaves floating on the pond and made him a photography.
Annie Paxton's image caused a sensation on the water lily. The writer Douglas Jerrold
published apoem that began, "On a piece
extended and fairy dress, / reflected in the water, / ecstatic hearts and eyes, / is Annie, the daughter of
But not content with having achieved only the blade held his daughter. He realized that this sheet could bear the weight of five older children, or the equivalent of about a hundred pounds of dead weight. Having thoroughly studied the sheet, found that he could withstand all that weight through the veins that formed a kind of Armazng cantilever. In 1850 he designed a spectacular glass building, the Crystal Palace , for the first world fair, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. For your Crystal Palace was modeled after the structure of the giant water lily leaf. It was an exhibition hall with an area of seventy thousand square meters, with a structure of interwoven steel beams that held about three hundred thousand glass panels. Never before had built anything like it. It was the culmination of the use of iron in architecture with a purpose both aesthetically and structurally. The large glass dome was an engineering marvel. What is exhibitedinside was no less impressive: the huge orchid Grammatophyllum
speciosum, who held the world record with a weight of two tons, the
diamond Koh-i-noor
Parkes unveiled a steel fork was invented and allowed farmers to remove land more easily, "but most were considered by designers of the time "
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