Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighting in London. published a lovely piece about the lamp lights of Victorian London still burning across the city.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
first public supply of gas in the world
Commemorated ati
Gas Light and Coke Company - SW1
Unveiled by councillor Carolyn Keen, Lord Mayor of Westminster.
Other Subjects
Jan Verbruggen
Master gun-founder and artist. Born at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1763, he and his son Pieter were appointed master founders at the Royal Arsenal Woolwich in 177...
2 memorials
Frederick George Creed
Inventor. Born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia. While working for the Central and South American Telegraph and Cable Company he became tired of using hand-operated machines to send messages. He came u...
1 memorial
Eaton Hodgkinson
Professor of engineering. FRS.  Born Cheshire.  Studied the strength of columns of various materials and pioneered the application of mathematics to structural design.  Late in life his mental abil...
1 memorial
first thoroughfare under a navigable river in the world
See Brunel's Thames Tunnel.
2 memorials
Edward Pinhey
Acting co-churchwarden at St Saviour's Church, Ealing, 1909. Edward Pinhey was born on 28 February 1855 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the second of the eleven children of Robert Hill Pinhey (1831...
Person, Emergency Services, Engineering, Politics & Administration, India
1 memorial
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