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Prince Albert had assumed the presidency of the Society of Arts, in John Adam Street below the Strand, in 1845, when he was not quite 26. Its modest goal was to encourage technology and manufactures.

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Commemorative plate of the Great Exhibition. The actual building was three times the length of St Paul's Cathedral.The Great Exhibition of the works of industry of all nations was conceived by ...