Marc Finnell
speaker
240 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Marc Finnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was his creation and he was thrilled that the plants arrived safely in Sydney.
But remember, Ward was a doctor.
So after he created this revolutionary way to transport plants, dude just went back to his day job, treating patients.
However, there was another man who saw the Wardian case and immediately realised its potential.
A friend of Ward's by the name of George Loddages.
And so Lotter just sets into motion, I guess, a production line of sorts to create more and more Wardian cases to transport plants from his nursery to places all over the world.
So Ward obviously gets naming rights, but didn't really profit from it, did he?
Ward wrote about his invention in a book published in 1842, but he never patented it.
So technically, Nathaniel Ward didn't own the Wardian case at all.
And very quickly, it spread everywhere.
Botanic gardens, plant hunters, nurseries.
Suddenly these glass cases were travelling
Everywhere.
China, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Japan.
And people just lost their minds over this stuff.
When a humble English primrose arrived in Melbourne in the 1850s inside a Wardian case, 3,000 people turned up to see it.
But of course, these boxes weren't just carrying ornamental plants.
They were carrying plantation crops.
Tea, quinine, rubber, plants that would generate enormous wealth for the British Empire.
And maybe the biggest story of them all
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