Google’s first doodle for May isn’t celebrating a person, but an event this time.
Today marks the anniversary of what is typically recognised as the first major World’s Fair, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, or just the Great Exhibition for short.
Although there were world events before it – in fact some say it was implemented as a response to the French Industrial Exhibition of the previous decade, to show that Britain was the real powerhouse of the industrial revolution.
It ran from May 1st to October 15th in 1851, organised by Prince Albert among others, and was housed in the Crystal Palace in London.
Google’s doodle depicts the Crystal Palace and exhibition within. It’s an interactive one, with some animated bits that you can see when you move your mouse over the doodle and it zooms in.
The fountain is animated, as is a well-dressed lady doing a twirl, and there are some animated gears plus a whistle coming from a steam locomotive.
Google is certainly liking its animated doodles of late, with three of seven doodles last month being animated (one, the Charlie Chapin affair, was actually a short film clip).
Today marks the anniversary of what is typically recognised as the first major World’s Fair, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, or just the Great Exhibition for short.
Although there were world events before it – in fact some say it was implemented as a response to the French Industrial Exhibition of the previous decade, to show that Britain was the real powerhouse of the industrial revolution.
Google’s doodle depicts the Crystal Palace and exhibition within. It’s an interactive one, with some animated bits that you can see when you move your mouse over the doodle and it zooms in.
The fountain is animated, as is a well-dressed lady doing a twirl, and there are some animated gears plus a whistle coming from a steam locomotive.
Google is certainly liking its animated doodles of late, with three of seven doodles last month being animated (one, the Charlie Chapin affair, was actually a short film clip).
