Download or read book The Gas Light and Coke Company An Account of the Progress of the Company from Its Incorporation by Royal Charter in the Year 1812 to the Present Time 1812 1912 With Illustrations written by Gas Light and Coke Company and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Gas Light and Coke Company written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gas, Light and Coke Company: An Account of the Progress of the Company From Its Incorporation by Royal Charter in the Year 1912 to the Present Time, 1812-1912 It is probable that the ordinary man of business, absorbed in the daily routine of his special calling, seldom spares a moment for reflection on the chance beginnings of institutions on whose aid he now depends for his very existence. They have become a part of his world as familiar and unquestioned as the suns diurnal round, with the cry of the newsboy at dusk and the milkman in the morning. The seventeenth-century Lloyd, who set up his coffee-house as a resort for seafaring gossips, is no more than a myth in the modern shipman's liturgy; and travellers by the night mail from London to Edinburgh, intent on errands of pleasure or of gain, pull the black lamp-shade over the flickering flame and settle themselves as cosily as may be in the carriage corner, without giving a moment's thought to the long labour of Stephenson in the dawn of the century gone by. Yet neither Lloyd's nor the modern railway sprang full-armed from the inventive brain: these institutions have slowly evolved to the needs of the time, social, political, industrial, which, step by step, induced their development. The steamship and the steam-driven locomotive, again, are dependent for their utility on the supply of coal: without their power of propulsion they are worth no more than their weight as scrap-iron. It is, indeed, hardly too much to say that neither one nor the other could have been invented elsewhere than in our own land, where the delvers have been busy since the time when Dan Chaucer's nimble pen "moved over bills of lading." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book An Account of the Progress of the Company from Its Incorporation by Royal Charter in 1812 to the Present Time and Report of the Directors for the Half year Ending 30th June 1912 written by Gas Light and Coke Company and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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