The Crystal Palace pane of glass (49 inches) as the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, thereby creating a triangle with a length-to-height ratio of 2.5:1, whose base (adjacent side) was 4 feet long. By mirroring this triangle he obtained the 8-foot-wide gables that formed the vertical faces at either end of the prism, each of which was 24' long. With this arrangement, Paxton could glaze the entire roof surface with identical panes that did not need to be trimmed. Paxton placed three of these 8' x 24' roof units side-by-side, horizontally supported by a grid of cast iron beams, which was held up
Kim (given name) – where the child was born. From the 1900s to the 1960s, the name Kim was mainly given to boys, despite the use of this name for both male and female characters in popular literature and, later, movies of the time. In Scandinavia Kim can more often be used as a male name in its own right, being a common short form of Joakim. In Russia (Kim) is a diminutive/nickname of Ioakim (), "Joachim". Its popularity in the early Soviet era was explained as it being also the acronym for (Kommunistichesky Internatsional Molodyozhi, Young Communist International). Kim (given name) Kim