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How London's Crystal Palace was built so quickly

New study finds it was the earliest known building to use a standard screw thread

James Whitworth had proposed a common standard thread in an 1841 paper, based on his analysis of an extensive collection of screw bolts from the main British producers. (Also relocated to the surrounding Crystal Palace Park: the life-sized concrete dinosaur models created for the exhibition by English sculpture and natural history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series.

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