Abstract
COL. CROMPTON is one of the few men now living who have clear recollections of the 1851 Exhibition in Hyde Park. When a child of six, accompanied by his mother, he came up to the Exhibition in a special train from Thirsk to King's Cross. The train was incredibly long, every seat was occupied, and it was drawn by six engines. Naturally, he was impressed by Paxton's wonderful crystal building shining and glistening in the sun, very different in appearance from the clumsy concrete buildings of the Wembley Exhibition. He dragged his mother to the machinery hall at one end of the Palace. Neither the Koh-i-noor diamond nor any of the numerous side-shows had any attraction for him comparable with the locomotives with their brilliantly polished piston rods and brasses burnished like gold. This had doubtless the effect of giving an engineering bent to his after life.
Reminiscences.
By R. E. Crompton. Pp. xv + 238 + 8 plates. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 14s. net.
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RUSSELL, A. A Pioneer of Electrical Engineering. Nature 122, 517–518 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122517a0
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