Marguerite Du Plessis

Crystal Palace Marguerite Du Plessis

An Alternative History of Science. In 1910, Charles Francis Richter was a very curious 10-year-old boy. His curiosity would one day lead to the creation of a way to measure the size of an earthquake. As a boy though, Charliescuriosity leads him on an adventure that introduces him to Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Robert Koch, Rudolf Diesel, and Joseph Tyrrell. Travel with young Charlie Richter to Crystal Palace,in England,for a historical re-imagining of the greatest scientific exhibition of the 20thcentury that never actually happened,and explore some of the ideas that launched the modern world.