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Imperial College London - Wikipedia

In 1851, the Great Exhibition was organised as an exhibition of culture and industry by Henry Cole and by Prince Albert, husband of the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_…

In this capacity Cole was instrumental in the development of the Victoria and Albert Museum which had begun as the Museum of Ornamental Art in Marlborough House. Cole oversaw its move to its current site, and became first director of what was called South Kensington Museum

from 1857 to 1873. In 1974 a part of the museum that was once known as the Huxley Building was renamed the Henry Cole Building; today it forms the Henry Cole Wing of the V&A.

The official opening by Queen Victoria was on 20 June 1857. In the following year, late-night openings

were introduced, made possible by the use of gas lighting.

Nathan Meyer Rothschild headed the banking business in Britain, and became business partners with brother in law Moses Montifiore invested in the supply of piped gas for street in 1824 as the Imperial Continental Gas

Association.

It commenced operations distributing gas in Hannover in 1825 and providing gas lighting in Berlin in 1826 under the supervision of the Prussian Count Eduard of Dyhrn-Waldenburg-Schoenau. During the course of the 19th century it established gas works in Antwerp,

Brussels, Berlin and Vienna. Its operations in Vienna began in the mid-1840s; the head office from 1883 to 1902 was at the Palais Epstein.

Palais Epstein is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna, Austria. It was built for the industrialist and banker Gustav Ritter von Epstein.

The Epstein family was one of the oldest and most respected Jewish families in Prague. Their economic - and at the same time social - rise had begun at the turn from the 18th to the 19th century. External signs of their ascent were that they moved to Vienna, the capital of the

Monarchy, Gustav Epstein’s ennoblement, and the construction of their magnificent palace on Ringstrasse. After the Stock Exchange crash of 1873, the family’s standing declined and they returned to a middle-class existence.

Following the Gründerkrach ("Founders' Crash", the 9

May 1873 crash of the Vienna Stock Exchange), Epstein had to sell the palais to the Imperial Continental Gas Association, an English gas company, to avoid bankruptcy.

In 1902 it was acquired by the State and used as domicile of the Administrative Court. After conversions, it

became home to the Vienna School Authority in 1922. Following the Anschluss, it housed offices of the Reichsstatthalter's building authorities.
The Reichsstatthalter (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌʃtathaltɐ], Imperial lieutenant) was a title used in the German Empire and later in Nazi Germany.

The office of Statthalter des Reiches (otherwise known as Reichsstatthalter) was instituted in 1879 by the German Empire for the areas of Alsace (Elsaß) and Lorraine (Lothringen) that France had ceded to Germany following the Franco-Prussian War. It was a form of governorship

intended to exist while Alsace-Lorraine became a federal state of the Empire. It was abolished when Alsace-Lorraine was, in turn, ceded back to France after Germany lost World War I.