This video is sponsored by Ground News. Download Ground News for free here: check.ground.news/megaprojects
@bencarley68964 жыл бұрын
Hows about a mega projects on the Atlantic wall during ww2? It was pretty impressive, turning the entire coastline of France into a fortress
@bluthammer14424 жыл бұрын
Left wing news, right wing news, centre news. Didnt really know facts had political leanings. At least we have the choice of cancer i guess.
@motherreaper72874 жыл бұрын
Please do Minas Tirith next. So far as mega projects go I think that one deserves some coverage.
@Louisianacentral84 жыл бұрын
How about the Manchester to Liverpool railway constructed by Robert Stephenson
@nighthawk0434 жыл бұрын
Small correction: I believe "Gaelic" /ˈɡeɪlɪk/ which you pronounced (4:32), usually refers to the scottish or irish celts. "Gallic " /ˈɡalɪk/ would normally be used for the gauls of France. Both the celts and the gauls are essentially part of the same group (relating to Roman Gaul), but still probably best to call them differently, as most of continental western Europe, and most of Great Britain fit within Roman Gaul. Also, I don't think a Scot would like being called French?
@___David__4 жыл бұрын
We also had a Crystal Palace in Portugal, built around the same time, by a Brit upon commission. But ours didn't burned down. It was demolished by the government in 1951 a movement so unpopular that to this day, almost 70 years after the fact, the gardens and the area in which the building was is still refered to as Crystal Palace. Including by people too young to have even seen it in their lifetimes.
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
That's pretty interesting. I'd like to look up more on that.
@MrMoparbob4984 жыл бұрын
David Check out auto Didactic with Cambell or Jon Levi or Flat Earth British & you will get the run down on this plus. Will blow your mind
@dsm02c4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this comment. It’s cool.
@Coys3194 жыл бұрын
Bob Fedder what?
@grlt234 жыл бұрын
So... honestly when I have read the title I was so excited - I thought it will be video about Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center [a.k.a. Doom Mountain or NORAD HQ]. It is definitively another mega-project.
@Absol1524 жыл бұрын
Megaproject idea, the incredible progression of Simon Whistler's beard
@gamersrepublic69204 жыл бұрын
If you watched business blaze you'd know that the beard came to a very sad end at the hands of his wife's decision trumping his.
@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt27184 жыл бұрын
@@gamersrepublic6920 If that isn't pvssy-whipped I don't know what is. Why get married to a guy with a beard if you don't like beards?
@gamersrepublic69204 жыл бұрын
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 she didn't make him shave it off, just made him trim it for family pictures
@Absol1524 жыл бұрын
@@gamersrepublic6920 ALLEGEDLY
@josh_15184 жыл бұрын
@@Absol152 ABUSE HE WAS FORCED IT WAS ABUSE
@Parso773 жыл бұрын
Out of interest my father saw the Crystal Palace burn down with his own eyes. He turns 90 on Tuesday...
@Antihm-js7wc3 ай бұрын
My mum watched it burn down she was 16 at the time.
@EricDavidRocks3 жыл бұрын
"It's boring." -- I knew it, Simon is an American at heart.
@gaatzaat4 жыл бұрын
My grandmother told me that the fire was so huge you could see a glow in the sky that night from the other side of the city. She was just a kid when it happened but could recall it quite clearly.
@Aasthakhanna274 жыл бұрын
That is insane!!!
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
@@Aasthakhanna27 Well if you go to either Alexander Palace or Primrose Hill about 6 miles to the north of london you can view the Norwood Heights that form part of Sydenham Hill area and see the pair of TV transmitters quite clearly ( about 6 miles to the South of London )
@joedarpa95662 жыл бұрын
she was right it had its own light source but they won't tell us that........we have been lied to so much
@-oiiio-3993 Жыл бұрын
@@joedarpa9566 Fire is it's "own light source", fool.
@simonjewers67783 жыл бұрын
During my fire service training we were told that the time taken between the fire being discovered and the first call to the Fire Brigade was 36 minutes. The streets were full of people who were wondering why the Fire Brigade had not arrived, and they all thought that someone else must have phoned up as it was such a big fire. I feel that this point was sufficiently interesting to have been included, as a quick phone call could have saved the building.
@shonapushedplay43264 жыл бұрын
This is my local park. While there's no major structures left aside from the terraces you can see lots of little remnants and the dinosaurs are grossly understated in this. They're protected, being restored to their Victorian glory and wonderful! It's a pretty lovely park. Oh and there's a small museum next to what's left of one of the water towers. Worthy of a day out when in London (just check opening times, it's entirely volunteer run so is only open one day a week I think).
@todddiesen26473 жыл бұрын
To quote a professor of mine, “the reason the sun never set on the British Empire was because even god didn’t trust those bastards in the dark”
@elgatto31333 жыл бұрын
That's RAW
@personatthebay3 жыл бұрын
And definetally not from your profs quote😅
@kickofftheboot3 жыл бұрын
😂🤣
@ronee19593 жыл бұрын
It was said by Shasi Tharoor in An Era Of Darkness: the British Empire in India
@randomobserver81683 жыл бұрын
@@ronee1959 Indians have ample complaints, especially about economic exploitation, but considering the region's history as one of rise and fall of empires, with each new one rising by wiping out the successor states of collapsed predecessors, and many of them of foreign origin, the politics and war that produced the British empire there were pretty normal stuff. They just like over egging the pudding in recent years.
@gnomad424 жыл бұрын
9:47, "Project began in 1950"?? Don't you mean 1850?
@shaunholmes99004 жыл бұрын
I did a double take when he said 1950. Was like are you sure about that.
@ShawnWigginsKafka4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, caught that too!!
@rklammer4 жыл бұрын
silly simon
@scottbruffy90714 жыл бұрын
I rewound it to make sure. Yep.
@EscapeLife20114 жыл бұрын
Yes I think he meant 1850 we all had to rewind just to make sure
@Tarotb4 жыл бұрын
Never realized it was quite so big; always imagined it as just a big greenhouse. Thanks; great video.
@davidcatanach26204 жыл бұрын
Insurance Assessor: So, your leaky building made entirely of steel and glass caught fire?.....
@jokuvaan51754 жыл бұрын
The floors were wooden right?
@applejacks9714 жыл бұрын
They lost their building in a boating accident...
@InVinoVeratas4 жыл бұрын
It's like they say, fires can't melt steel beams.
@YeeSoest4 жыл бұрын
Is this where I tell people about the german dude who had a fire ensurance on his cigar collection, wanted to cash the money once they "burned down slowly over several evenings", won the case but was then charged with arson and went to jail? No? Sorry
@Lozzie744 жыл бұрын
Bailey Green don’t let facts ruin your story. How is steel originally smelted and cast? Using fires.
@amyhogarten50383 жыл бұрын
This building is considered an one of the first examples of “Modern Architecture” with its extensive use of glass and steel. It’s an incredible project; thanks for do an awesome video on it‼️‼️
@fromgermany2713 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately it was not flexible steel, but brittle cast iron.
@toffeefuchs2 жыл бұрын
When I first learnt English in school there was a story about the crystal palace and the great exhibition in our textbook. It was written like a short historical fiction of a kid (I think a little girl) going to see the exhibition with their family. It had a drawing of the building next to it and I vividly remember wanting to see this in person. When the teacher later told us that the building doesn't exist anymore I was very very disappointed. Now more than a decade later this video reminds me how badly I wanted to see this building. Maybe I should finally get around to write a time travel story where the protagonist gets to visit it.
@andrewskivington64534 жыл бұрын
My mum was 11 and living in London at the time. She remembered the fire as it lit up the sky over the whole of the city.
@RDSwords Жыл бұрын
Despite so stubbornly refusing to simply watch a couple of Star Wars movies, Simon really nails some strong Palpatine vibes every time he says EMPIIIIIRE lol.
@markwallace17274 жыл бұрын
Simon: "I don't follow football. It's boring." *Proceeds to give it's size in football pitches too* Yes, it really does appear to be a unit of measurement, much like any amount of water is given in number of Olympic swimming pools. (Neither helps me). Nice work as always on the video Simon.
@spamcan614 жыл бұрын
I'd also nominate blue wales, London buses and Nelson's column as meaningless measurement units.
@rednammoc4 жыл бұрын
@@spamcan61 While you may have meant "blue whales", the land area of Wales is another common unit of measurement too
@ObservationofLimits3 жыл бұрын
Ironically, pitches also aren’t a standard size. They simply have to fall within certain dimensions.
@albertjackinson4 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects idea: The construction of the Hubble Space Telescope.
@DavidJohnson-dp4vv4 жыл бұрын
You mean James Webb
@SigEpBlue4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv That's a near unequivocal neverending story.
@albertjackinson4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Both were constructed, obviously.
@DavidJohnson-dp4vv4 жыл бұрын
@@SigEpBlue I honestly do like that reply.
@dennisbast7434 жыл бұрын
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Isn't "The James Webb Telescope" a science fiction story? I forget the author's name. Suggestion? ;-)))
@annabendewald50783 жыл бұрын
“The building began in 1950.” I think that was a mistake. Was it 1850?
@audreymuzingo9333 жыл бұрын
Yeah wtf, I had to replay that, thinking maybe he said 1915 which would at least be closer, but still not right.
@tinmachine6933 жыл бұрын
I checked it out on ground news. The left said 1750,the centre 1850 & the right 1950.
@audreymuzingo9333 жыл бұрын
@@tinmachine693 What is 'ground news' and by 'left, center, right' are you talking about the parts of the building?
@tinmachine6933 жыл бұрын
@@audreymuzingo933 the sponsor of this video gives you the news from 3 different perspectives. Go to comments at the top of the page .
@catholiccrusader53283 жыл бұрын
Anna you beat me to it.
@hullinstruments3 жыл бұрын
It’s refreshing to hear someone describe their nation accurately and brutally honest. I live in the southern United States, and I love my country…. But hate all the suffering it’s brought to the world.
@IRMacGuyver2 жыл бұрын
Then move out
@kevinmobile2 жыл бұрын
Your video took me back to my work place that was simply called....Crystal Palace. And the site of the 700 ft BBC television tower where I spent 21 fascinating years from 1976 helping to transmit and broadcast 405 line and 625 line television pictures to over 10m viewers in London. Each time I walked over the 'top site' as we called it, I usually found remnants of broken and melted glass from that famous fire reminding me of my own father who recounted how he saw the building burn down in 1936 from his adjacent home town of Beckenham when he was just 15. It is said a river of molten glass poured down Sydenham hill worryingly in his direction!
@greenspittgames73744 жыл бұрын
Commenting until Simon makes that video about cargo ships he said he would do
@AndrewTJackson4 жыл бұрын
Escargo ships.
@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt27184 жыл бұрын
Well, it sometimes takes weeks to months to make a video, particularly with the research that goes into documentaries, so have fun with that. It'll probably be quicker to do the research yourself instead of waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to you.
@wolf37944 жыл бұрын
Stop asking Simon, ask EtA instead!
@roberthill32074 жыл бұрын
I will as well have a great day.
@MAGGOT_VOMIT4 жыл бұрын
_I just heard echoes of haunting laughter followed by the phrase,_ _"Poo Faced Git".......{0.o}......I dunno._
@anyawillowfan3 жыл бұрын
One of the most impressive things about the Crystal Palace/the Great Exhibition is that people of all classes mingled as they walked through it. Previously rich people wouldn't regularly see the working class during their social hours/shopping etc, and vice versa.
@NikhilAngadBakshi4 жыл бұрын
Having lived in CP, visited the museum and knowing a bit of trivia about it, this video was particularly interesting. Thanks Simon. Now I can continue to rant to my coworkers about Crystal Palace unapologetically :p
@MarielaQue4 жыл бұрын
I wish the Crystal Palace did still exist
@shindari4 жыл бұрын
Could easily be rebuilt, at a fraction of the time, today (probably not at a fraction of the cost, though). The trouble is, England doesn't want to do it anymore, and even the United States would struggle to get it even started, from the sheer scale of political opposition any party who proposed it would receive (If Trump proposed it, he'd probably ASSASSINATED the next day!)
@_Abjuranax_4 жыл бұрын
Infomart in Dallas is a smaller, albeit quite large replica based on the Crystal Palaces' design, and has probably influenced many other buildings as well.
@justinvandergriff4 жыл бұрын
it does exist. its in dallas. i drive by it all the time. its owned by infomart now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart
@gormauslander4 жыл бұрын
@@shindari megaprojects aren't typically government enterprises here in the USA. It would be done by a wealthy enthusiast
@shindari4 жыл бұрын
@@gormauslander Which means that Trump will find some kind of "wealthy enthusiast" to build him that "Mexican Wall" he's been dreaming of for four years...
@donalodomhnaill4 жыл бұрын
Simon, your videos are brilliant. This one in particular was extra emotional. I love the history of the Crystal Palace. Keep up the amazing brilliant work. Seriously, you are one of the best channels on KZfaq at the moment. Thanks for all the great content!
@CammanderDart4 жыл бұрын
Y'all should do a video on Chicago's World Fair, Like how the city rebuilt itself and expanded itself in record time to get the worlds fair.
@david53724 жыл бұрын
...and don't forget to mention that the entire enterprise in 1893 was lit and powered by -- (who else?) -- NIKOLA TESLA!!
@-oiiio-3993 Жыл бұрын
@@david5372 As chief engineer for Westinghouse. Tesla's system was more efficient and vastly undercut the competing bid of Edison.
@juliaclark73543 жыл бұрын
I love Simon! He makes it so much fun to learn. As I was watching this, I remembered seeing a strangely similar-looking building in Dallas, Texas. It’s called Infomart and it was, in fact, designed to resemble The Crystal Palace. There’s a Wikipedia article on it that says it was originally a sort-of permanent trade-show space, but later was converted to a “technology office and data center.”
@b.w.224 жыл бұрын
My great-great-great grandfather had a huge Victorian greenhouse in this style. I don’t think many remain, though they’re so striking. They also had a courtyard where they played human chess, so it’s all a bygone world I guess.
@TheBooban4 жыл бұрын
15:37 A small fire? They did insurance scams back then too.
@WolvenSpectre4 жыл бұрын
What the hell were coats made of back then? I know billiard balls sometimes exploded but what in a coat room would go BOOM?
@NM-wd7kx4 жыл бұрын
@@WolvenSpectre collars were often made of cellulite (same as billiard balls, I believe), but fur, wool, cotton, waxed linen, etc. all delightfully flammable
@monad_tcp4 жыл бұрын
but how that much glass and iron burned? what did the fire got so hot? or was there a lot of wood too?
@countzero11363 жыл бұрын
My father always insisted that it was an insurance job too
@countzero11363 жыл бұрын
@@WolvenSpectre I'm pretty sure the fire had a bit of help - after all, the place had been losing money for some time beforehand
@celticlass85734 жыл бұрын
I've often thought that if you were a person with a curious mind, the decades from the 1850s to 1920s would have been an incredible time to be alive.
@patricks_music3 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing how many images and videos we have of things of the past
@dazman764 жыл бұрын
4:31 "...outdo their Gaelic cousins..." - that should be Gallic cousins, right?
@markchip14 жыл бұрын
Nah - just a bunch of tourists from Cardiff quarantined in Paris!
@6FuriousD94 жыл бұрын
Yeah buddy. Fully paused the video there and replied it. It's Gallic Simon, gal-ik
@Jake-mf5sn4 жыл бұрын
This bugged me far more than it should have.
@scottwhitley33924 жыл бұрын
Mark Chippendale the Welsh aren’t Gaelic either 😂
@alexhamilton40844 жыл бұрын
Not the only error he made. He said construction started in 1951 not 1851 😂
@JohnDoe-vm2di4 жыл бұрын
Did you know that Back in 1985, a developer built an office building that was modeled after the The Crystal Palace in Dallas, TX? Its called the Infomart building and its the closest the world has to The Crystal Palace. Ive never been inside myself, but it’s right off the highway and very distinctive looking. You cant miss it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomart
@YaBoiAltair2 жыл бұрын
Wait lmao I drive by this all the time I thought it WAS the Crystal Palace that he would be talking about
@JohnDoe-vm2di2 жыл бұрын
@@YaBoiAltair I drive by it all the time too. Ive always liked it because it’s distinctive looking.
@Alanpie3142 жыл бұрын
I was there back in the 80s. Fascinating place. I'm sure it's not as big as the original, though I don't know the actual dimensions of either building.
@markchip14 жыл бұрын
"GAELIC" COUSINS!?!??? (the French) I think you mean "Gallic"!!
@countzero11363 жыл бұрын
I winced at that one as well :)
@todddiesen26473 жыл бұрын
Because the Scots and Irish were poised to overcome the Welsh... really. Honest.
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Crystal Palaced 2:40 - Chapter 2 - Pax Britannica 4:00 - Chapter 3 - The great exhibition 5:10 - Chapter 4 - Design competition 7:50 - Chapter 5 - The largest glass house 9:40 - Chapter 6 - Construction 12:05 - Chapter 7 - The grand opening 14:00 - Chapter 8 - After the greatest show on earth 15:35 - Chapter 9 - The great fire
@archie64724 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a video on this channel about the tower London were going to build to rival Paris’ Eiffel Tower and become the tallest building in the world, it was going to be built in Wembley and began construction, but then stopped.
@paulqueripel34934 жыл бұрын
Built on boggy land and started to tilt if I remember correctly. So it would have been a cross between Eiffel and Pisa.
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
See Jago Hazzard on Watkins Tower. One vid to come too I think on the cemetary tower planned for north london
@carriere8883 жыл бұрын
would have been epic
@fikanera8384 жыл бұрын
Megaproject suggestion: ancient buildings with domes, especially double-skinned ones (like medieval cathedrals) where the inside is quite different to the outside. Love the range of this channel!
@mikebailey7834 жыл бұрын
4:30 - Ahh, hold on there; you've called the French 'Gaelic', which is in fact the language spoken in Ireland & Scotland. You mean 'Gallic'; as in 'Gaul'.
@rednammoc4 жыл бұрын
It was galling to hear this mispronunciation...
@rogerknights8573 жыл бұрын
He also said 1950.
@ryancrucena7553 жыл бұрын
All your pfp is green :D
@joestephan11113 жыл бұрын
Motorcycle & car racing was held on the roads of the park. A racing-based episode of either the Avengers or The Saint was filmed there.
@tokyoskid9014 жыл бұрын
Would love to see the Chicago worlds fair grounds as well!
@christophermerlot33664 жыл бұрын
The Ferris Wheel alone was a megaproject.
@shindari4 жыл бұрын
Always been rather curious about the one in Queens, NY, too. As that was my home town, and I always saw the "remains" of that event, which took place before I was even a fetus. Only my parents could tell me what it was really like, and I'd love to hear a bit about that one... just on a personal level, mind you. I don't really care if it was truly amazing, or not.
@robertcothern75044 жыл бұрын
Devil in the white city. This book has great descriptions of the Chicago worlds fair( along with the worst serial killer ever)
@mancavegamingandgardening99014 жыл бұрын
Would love to learn more about that Great Stove. Interesting to see how greenhouse technology has come along since the 1800s.
@Kethambelle3 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact: The Great Stove was so large that Queen Victoria was able to ride around the inside using a horse and carriage during her visit in 1843. Sir Joseph Paxton really deserves his own video on Simon's other channel Biographics. He was an amazing horticulturist, landscape architect and engineer, as well as an author, journalist and board member of three different railway companies. At just 20 he was running an experimental arboretum for the Royal Horticultural Society, by 22 he was the head gardener at Chatsworth House, where he designed and installed the Emperor Fountain (able to reach 290m), built the Great Stove, won national prizes for the fruit he produced and became the world leading expert on the dahlia. Oh and there's a wonderful story about the head botanist at Kew asking Paxton to help him save an ailing specimen of an extremely rare lily......so Paxton designed and built a special hothouse and had the thing flowering within three months. Not bad for someone born into a poor farming family during the early 19th century.
@mancavegamingandgardening99013 жыл бұрын
@@Kethambelle not the type of reply I was expecting 7 months later, but I have been flush with joy since reading more about this guy. Simon, where the hell is our Biographics!?
@Kethambelle3 жыл бұрын
@@mancavegamingandgardening9901 Hahaha sorry, I just got excited at the chance to go on a rant about Paxton, he was such an interesting guy.
@gottjager7604 жыл бұрын
"Derbyshire in the North Of England", someones from the South.
@Jack-hg1hq4 жыл бұрын
so how would you describe it then
@gottjager7604 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-hg1hq "it's in the south" - Someone from the North
@Jack-hg1hq4 жыл бұрын
@@gottjager760 I'm very confused, so your from the north or south?
@gottjager7604 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-hg1hq I'm from Derby. Northerners tell me I'm Southern, and Southerners tell me I'm Northern.
@Jack-hg1hq4 жыл бұрын
@@gottjager760 ah, I live near stockport and have the same issue, people from newcastle think we are basically londoners, people from london think we are practically scottish, I say we are north west/ midlands depending where in derbyshire
@carschmn4 жыл бұрын
Imagine talking to that glass dealer. “How large of glass panes can you make?” “49x10” “We’ll take 200,000”
@TzarHiroki104 жыл бұрын
Simon’s beard is THE mega project and I love it!
@anishadamane41794 жыл бұрын
Simon you should do some research on ancient Indian temples you will be amazed by their structures
@peteyank4 жыл бұрын
Not sure if it would be best for Megaprojects or maybe Geographics or even TIFO, but I would love to see you do a video on the Love Canal disaster, as I grew up essentially down the road from it.
@bicyclist24 жыл бұрын
I knew about this from a TV show in the 80's. I had forgotten about this. Thanks for the history. I downloaded Ground News.
@markkmiecik97974 жыл бұрын
They looked for Prince Albert while building it, but couldn't find him. It was later revealed that he had been in the can.
@-oiiio-3993 Жыл бұрын
Let him out!
@quasarsavage4 жыл бұрын
The Blaze cannot be contained! 🤣
@kevinjessel88093 жыл бұрын
Oh hey wow, I did my senior thesis on the US Botanic Garden. The Botanic Garden was based on the Crystal Palace. There is an episode worth doing here. Also I can email a whole ton of research. Could also do Kew Garden as well.
@kimchipig4 жыл бұрын
One can look back at the horrors of empire but did the UK at the time ever have engineers.Stephenson and Brunel were both extremely brilliant men, developing ways to put canals, and later railways are grade in any landscape, and then go out and build it. Brunel went on to build the largest ship in history and used it to lay the first transatlantic cable. We cannot forget Joseph Bazallgette, who was a master of huge projects like the London sewer system. In any of these massive projects, the project management was the most difficult part but these great men did it. Go to the UK, which is a living museum in many ways and one will see the work of these great engineers all over the country.
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see the London Sewers as a Megaprojects video.
@4077Disc4 жыл бұрын
You’d need an army of ETAs to heat a building like that. Generalissimo ETA will begin the conquering soon.....
@pogthegrea4 жыл бұрын
His excellency ETA will conquer every wall outlet in the known universe
@ScottieD8134 жыл бұрын
He'll have an army of heating devices. Not only heaters but anything that conducts heat. Curlers, straighteners, hair dryers, etc. Theyll heat that room up so much that Simon will pass out. Then, they'll take over the video equipment and start posting videos on all of Simon's channels. The videos will be set up like an Anonymous video, ETA will in the forefront with his army behind him while he lays out his demands and commands for all the subscribers to take action on behalf of him. All of the sudden, there will be Fight-Club-style vandalism with the calling card being the Wilson face that's on the front of ETA so the authorities know exactly who's taking credit
@christophermerlot33664 жыл бұрын
@@ScottieD813 Maximum Overdrive 2020
@hkbabel4 жыл бұрын
Only if you refer to him as EtA, he prefers. But why do I assume he's a He?
@4077Disc4 жыл бұрын
Holly B Generalissima EtA? Generalissimx EtA?
@Darryl_Frost4 жыл бұрын
I like how Ground News uses the electronics circuit symbol for electrical ground!! Makes an old techy happy...
@ground_news4 жыл бұрын
We chose the logo and name and as an ode to the engineering background of our team. Our CEO worked on the New Horizons mission and our CTO used to work in R&D in the healthcare space. Always good to remember where you came from!
@Darkhalfcustoms4 жыл бұрын
I had never heard of this one and I studied quite a bit of history. Good closing line very epic in the presentation. Like you felt the loss your self.
@thomashenry32304 жыл бұрын
I live 5 minutes from the site of the site, its mental watching a video you made on something round the corner from my house
@Snoozefor10minutes4 жыл бұрын
The glass house in lalbagh botanical garden in bangalore was inspired from this, built by British. Its not as massive as this is
@giovannirodriguesdasilva6464 жыл бұрын
We have one in brazil too, in the city of Curitiba is a Botanical Garden, a classic tourist spot in the city, not nearly as big of course
@Robert-zx7hj4 жыл бұрын
I'm having beard envy. I think Simon's beard needs its own video.
@hagerty19523 жыл бұрын
I love how you say "Empiaah". And, BTW, all empires were built on brutal suppression. People really don't want to be subjugated. BTW, I wish you'd clarified one thing. If the building was famously built of glass and iron, what, exactly, was burning?
@phantomechelon3628 Жыл бұрын
Probably the exhibits. He said it started with an explosion in a cloakroom. Depending on what was in there, it could've got hot enough to melt even iron & glass.
@Wasserfeld.4 жыл бұрын
Living 10 mins walk away from Crystal Palace Park it's always weird walking around the grounds of the Palace. It's the closest thing we have to Roman ruins in South London lol. I do wish they spent some money on the grounds and made it much nicer. You can also walk along the old railway line through Sydenham Woods that closed as a result of the Palace burning down.
@TalesOfWar4 жыл бұрын
Whenever I tell anybody in the world I'm from Manchester the first thing 90% of them ask is "City or United" and my answer is "neither, I don't care for football". So I totally get your struggle there haha.
@KHurlbutt4 жыл бұрын
Episode suggestion: "Rondon Commission" - the project to set up telegraph lines into the amazon. Cândido Rondon is a very interesting figure I'd like to learn more about.
@shotfirer-yf7ub Жыл бұрын
As a small note… my little home town, of Great Western, in between the Grampians - the Pyrenees- and on the fringe of the Wimmera region of Victoria, (population 150 when I was a kid) had little in the way of streets. But those few streets were proudly named, Stevenson st, Brunel st, Paxton st in the early 1853,just 18 months after the opening of the great exhibition. My address was the corner of Paxton and Brunel Streets,Great Western, Victoria. My interest in engineering comes directly from the names from my home town.
@thomaszielke8664 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects idea: The Amber Room.
@LisaBowers3 жыл бұрын
Your wish was granted today!
@redhotchilipapa53883 жыл бұрын
Megamystery: no really, where did ze Germans hide that thing?
@dahak9724 жыл бұрын
Holy sh*t Simon, that’s a helluva beard you’re rockin’ there. Great video guys, thank you!
@oskar279714 жыл бұрын
A suggestion, Chicago 1893 World’s Fair.
@wollyxl4 жыл бұрын
Birkenhead Park is in Birkenhead situated on the Wirral next to Liverpool
@FirelordRob764 жыл бұрын
i could watch Simon talk about the construction of the Big Mac and be captivated. great work, my british friend.
@Joe-pj7wh4 жыл бұрын
That beard seems to be growing extremely fast...
@jeffk4644 жыл бұрын
starting to get annoying to look at
@Joe-pj7wh4 жыл бұрын
@EmperorJuliusCaesar agreed.
@BarbadosBeerFestival4 жыл бұрын
Allegedly.... lol
@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv4 жыл бұрын
I think he is fluffing it before shooting. He wants the ZZTop fans.
@markchip14 жыл бұрын
I was thinking its style was somewhat "Romanov"...
@CC-zr6fp4 жыл бұрын
Also, highly recommend the tv show Victoria (the latest season as of this video) as one of the last few episodes of the season shows the planning and building of the Crystal Palace by Prince Albert
@lunagrace28724 жыл бұрын
Such an amazing episode! One of my favorites. 🥰
@kennyhagan57813 жыл бұрын
The stories I find here have a little bit of everything.... that's an awesome thing.
@davidlorryman9982 жыл бұрын
My school used the sports complex at Crystal Palace. I can remember trying to take a shortcut to the bus stop up the old stone stairs. I think we were thwarted by a missing piece of staircase. Still had a magic atmosphere. Great episode. Thank you.
@pickledbushman4 жыл бұрын
When you see these numbers for attendance, and theyre "big" numbers.... it kinda puts into perspective gamers who stream to 100k people at the same time. Give you an idea of how huge they are.
@LucasOliveira-tt2ll4 жыл бұрын
the site of the crystal palace also saw some racing events back in the 50's and 60's
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
I went once to a motobike racing weekend. The track became too small for the speeds being achieved by cars and bikes and places like Brands Hatch and Goodwood used instead.
@AL_THOMAS3 жыл бұрын
@@highpath4776 They still hold racing meets around a smaller track today with mostly timed sprint races and classic cars.
@ninchan24 жыл бұрын
last summer South Kensington was celebrating Victoria and Albert's bicentenary by throwing a 3-day homage/memorial to the Great Exhibition with a whole road and a park turned into a festival of science, culture, past, future and everything in between. it was the only place where you could munch on crickets while talking about pros and cons of 3D printing while listening to a live brass band. made you wish you could travel back to 1851 to witness both, the Great Exhibition as well as the awestruck faces of the millions of visitors.
@GoodVideos42 жыл бұрын
I would never have thought of that metaphorical link between the Crystal Palace and the British Empire.
@keitadarkwolf25914 жыл бұрын
How about the Sagrada Familia? The cathedral more than 100 years in the making.
@christophermerlot33664 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah. Have you been there? It's amazing.
@Claytone-Records4 жыл бұрын
Gaudi.
@Equiluxe14 жыл бұрын
Cast and wrought iron with glass whats to burn, they must have stuffed that place with combustible materials before they set on fire.
@KarlBunker4 жыл бұрын
I was also wondering what was in the lady’s cloakroom that exploded. 🤭
@jaewok5G4 жыл бұрын
linseed soaked cellulose? … and what about that 'small explosion in the ladies lavatory?'
@jeffk4644 жыл бұрын
@@bottomlands Whats the politically correct term for Jewish lightning?
@guardsmanom1344 жыл бұрын
@@jeffk464 Yiddish Figenzie
@guardsmanom1344 жыл бұрын
So.... Forty tons of glass, iron, and steel just burned, huh? Plausible- *IF* the framework were covered in aluminium, and the explosion were caused by magnesium powder... Kinda sounds *STAGED* to me...🤔
@billblank99324 жыл бұрын
Simon is brilliant and always fun to watch. Hadn't heard of the Crystal Palace before, so when the year came up, it reminded me of a very different story that started in England. In December 1850, a woman named Anne Berry boarded the Roscius with her family, in Liverpool. They'd traveled there from Roscommon in flight from the famine. One of her sons went on to fight and die in the American Civil War, but Anne never made it to New York. The Roscius made port in the winter of 1851, but Anne died on the voyage. No, not directly related to the Palace, but the one story about that year, evoked the other.
@rocnoir42333 жыл бұрын
My Great Great Grandad lived here and served with the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment. Such a shame that it was lost.
@snarl30274 жыл бұрын
Wouldn’t it be crazy if the news reported the facts and let people think for themselves?
@ground_news4 жыл бұрын
We agree - Our mission is to inform not instruct. People don't need another news outlet telling them what to believe. We give our readers tools that help them understand the news objectively based on media bias, geographic location, and time. Judge the truth for yourself, and feel free to read more about our story and mission here: ground.news/
@garyoa14 жыл бұрын
Back in the day, when the news was broadcast without any commercials whatsoever... it did exactly that.
@garyoa14 жыл бұрын
@Joe Horn 50's. When tv news was a radical idea. Public service. 6pm for 15 minutes a day. Yeah. I'm old.
@garyoa14 жыл бұрын
@Joe Horn Yeah they did. But news started out as a public service. They said they would never have sponsored news. Then money reared it's ugly head.
@user-xf6fj4vr1l4 жыл бұрын
Beard goals right there 😍🔥
@xaquko97184 жыл бұрын
Moustache goals in your profile pic.
@user-xf6fj4vr1l4 жыл бұрын
@@xaquko9718 haha that ain't me in real life, but a moustache like it would be sweet as!
@johnmurray84283 жыл бұрын
My Mum grew up in Earlesfield South London and remembered the night Crystal Palace burnt down. She talked about the amazing glow in the sky. I went to the park in the 1960s. The local railway station is magnificent.
@lemapp Жыл бұрын
The 1876 Philadelphia Exhibit was purchased by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. The entire exhibition was packed and moved to DC where it formed a major portion of then early museum. It had it's own custom built building, Arts & Industry, which still stands. From 1976 to 1996, the Smithsonian unpacked and re-displayed the exhibition.
@rockzs74r4 жыл бұрын
All I can think about Crystal Palace is a mediocre premier league team
@demonflowerchild4 жыл бұрын
all i can think of is a cheap vodka
@mike045744 жыл бұрын
Ashtaroth Solemn Hypnotic it’s the only league that’s not a farmers league eh
@mike045744 жыл бұрын
Ashtaroth Solemn Hypnotic at least out of Europe’s top leagues
@TomClarkSouthLondon2 ай бұрын
All I can think about is your mum!😘
@alphaxalex16344 жыл бұрын
9:46 Damn if only they made it a few years earlier it would of been ready of the 1948 London olympics...
@highpath47763 жыл бұрын
Thankfully we had Wembley for the Empire Exhibition of 1924?
@SSmith-fm9kg Жыл бұрын
Great video. I always wondered about the history of the structure. Thanks.
@hieronymus..bosch85323 жыл бұрын
The little maze is amusing, & once in a while road racing is brilliant
@JosephOlson-ld2td4 жыл бұрын
Brunel ~ greatest engineer in history > tunnels, railway stations, bridges, tunnels, locomotives, and in his spare time, steamships
@ChadWilson4 жыл бұрын
MegaProject Idea: The Internet.
@j.a.weishaupt17484 жыл бұрын
Chad Wilson That’s not really a megaproject. Yes it’s enormous right now, but it never started out like that.
@ChadWilson4 жыл бұрын
@@j.a.weishaupt1748, because it is now may qualify it for Simon's attention. As an ongoing megaproject, it has had more influence on humanity that anything else, except maybe the wheel or the creation of the number zero.
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that would be interesting considering how vital it is to our lives today.
@abrahamwalton82444 жыл бұрын
How exactly would the internet be a megaproject? It didn't have to be built, it was simply something we discovered and built infrastructure around it, much like radio because radio waves have always existed, we just simply discovered them and learned how to harness them to our benefit. He could however do an extensive video on Apple & Microsoft since they share most of their origins. 🤷♂️ Or a comical video on the ever growing Disney Empire and how they own half of the world's media enterprise. 😱😭
@TheBnjmnlrd2 жыл бұрын
Don't we all limp out badly scarred nations. A wonderful point of oration. I regularly enjoy your turn of phrase sir.
@TwoWholeWorms3 жыл бұрын
The film of the Crystal Palace burning down is one of the most saddening things I've ever seen in my life.
@droneeye26184 жыл бұрын
The British Empire, a tale we tell children 😂
@Robert-rt9ho4 жыл бұрын
I have to say Simon I don’t know why but this channel is my favourite of yours this then bio and geo graphics and of course today I found out and top tenz
@demonflowerchild4 жыл бұрын
you forgot business blaze!
@adarian4 жыл бұрын
Business Blaze is just so good.
@demonflowerchild4 жыл бұрын
@@adarian definitely Simons best channel
@--enyo--4 жыл бұрын
Actually, I've gone off Business Blaze over the last month or so. Like the OP I came to Simon's channels through Biographics then Geographics. I really liked Megaprojects from when it started as well. I used to really like Business Blaze, to the extent it rivalled the others for first place, because I was learning interesting stuff about business (not an area I'm too familiar with), and it was hilarious. If the main story was the cake, Simon going off crazy was the icing and Sam's meme's were the cream. But recently it's almost just TopTenz, and basically all icing and cream, no cake. Sure, this is great once in a while, but I preferred it a few months previous. But it doesn't matter too much. There's still Megaprojects, Biographics, & Geographics for me to enjoy. This is just my opinion. I'm glad other people are still enjoying it.
@TheLexiconDevils4 жыл бұрын
Blazing while allegedly coked up playing an imaginary drum kit swearing like a Tourette’s riddled Rick Astley
@stephenlane91683 жыл бұрын
Another blindingly good video of interest Simon & production team 👌🙏thank you
@JohnHoranzy4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the pointer to Ground News Simon. Ground News looks promising. The articles are not unbiased but at least we have a selection. I do not want stories that follow my own bias, I want facts and if they make me think that is much better. The problem with the media is that it caters to our bias and it appears Ground News will eventually do that.
@ground_news4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the support John! It sounds like you'll really get a lot of value out of our app. We strive to inform readers with a diverse selection of perspectives from across the political spectrum, on each news story. Our mission is to break people’s “bias bubbles” by encouraging a balanced news diet, one where users can read news from a perspective they typically avoid.
@ObservationofLimits3 жыл бұрын
Newsvoice does something similar
@pamelamays41864 жыл бұрын
The Blaze has found its way into Simon's other channels.
@MrTruehoustonian4 жыл бұрын
I know it's horrible
@LSSYLondon3 жыл бұрын
It's wonderful!
@crowonthepowerlines4 жыл бұрын
Loved that ending, the crystal palace as a metaphor for the British empire really works. Grand, yet fragile.
@Dene1814 жыл бұрын
Watched the Victoria Episode with it yesterday and now this drops, that can't be a coincidence.