The Technological Movement and the Garden Palace

Sydneyʹs 1879 International Exhibition in the Garden Palace - the building modelled on Paxton ʹs Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1ʹ851 - was originally intended as an agricultural exhibition; the expansion into an international exhibition of arts, crafts and manufactures from America and European and Asian countries eventually brought a revolution in the Australian world-view: from being a primary producing country servicing the manufactures of distant England to the beginning of independent industry. With this came a revolution in technical education - an improvement in local training for the trades, crafts and commerce, followed by new developments in higher education. Sydneyʹs 1879 International Exhibition in the Garden Palace - the building modelled on Paxton ʹs Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1ʹ851 - was originally intended as an agricultural exhibition; the expansion into an international exhibition of arts, crafts and manufactures from America and European and Asian countries eventually brought a revolution in the Australian world-view: from being a primary producing country servicing the manufactures of distant England to the beginning of independent industry. With this came a revolution in technical education - an improvement in local training for the trades, crafts and commerce, followed by new developments in higher education. Sydneyʹs 1879 International Exhibition in the Garden Palace - the building modelled on Paxton ʹs Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1ʹ851 - was originally intended as an agricultural exhibition; the expansion into an international exhibition of arts, crafts and manufactures from America and European and Asian countries eventually brought a revolution in the Australian world-view: from being a primary producing country servicing the manufactures of distant England to the beginning of independent industry. With this came a revolution in technical education - an improvement in local training for the trades, crafts and commerce, followed by new developments in higher education.