The standardisation of screws helped the then-world's biggest building be constructed within a year.
A new study has revealed that London's Crystal Palace was built in just 190 days thanks to a now standard innovation - the screw thread.
Prof John Gardner of Anglia Ruskin University and his team examined how what was then the biggest building on earth was built so quickly. The study has found that the Crystal Palace is the earliest known building to use Whitworth screw threads, later known as British Standard Whitworth , the world’s first national screw thread standard.The Crystal Palace was built in well under a year for the 1851 Great Exhibition
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