Chats Over a Pipe
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Glass, James) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Chats Over a Pipe: A Tale of Two Brothers Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, ´twere all alike As if we had them not. -Shakespeare. Somewhat over a hundred years ago, there lived in the City of Edinburgh a successful oil merchant named James Glass. He held the contract for supplying oil for lighting the street lamps of the city. As this was long before the discovery of mineral oil, fish oils were mainly used as luminants. These oils - sperm and spermaceti - were greatly relished by the Scandinavian and Russian sailors who brought their timber and hemp into Leith, the port of Edinburgh. These sailors used to speil up the street lamp-posts and drink the oil, greatly to the detriment of the oil merchant. It was also to the detriment of the citizens, for when the oil was gone the lights went out. My grandfather, as a caterer of light, was ever on the look-out for a new luminant. Hearing that a brother Scotsman, William Murdoch, had discovered the illuminating power of coal-gas, he travelled to London by mail-coach, and saw Westminster Bridge lit with gas. 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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