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RealAudio  |  2017-09-21  |  307.4 KB  |  1 channel  |  8,000 sample rate  |  2 minutes, 45 seconds

Transcription: Its grandeur does not consist in one thing, but in the unique assemblage of all things. Whatever human industry has created you find here. So wrote Charlotte Bronte in a letter penned in 1851 describing to a friend her experience of visiting the Crystal Palace. It was the birth of the Industrial Revolution, the beginning of our modern era. The power of steam was building factories and railways. Steam was to be followed by other technologies, electricity, radio, combustion engines, the telephone. The world was about to go through a period of great change. In January 1850, Prince Albert convened ...

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