The History of the London Water Industry, 1580 - 1820

The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820



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English | April 25, 2017 | ISBN: 1421422042 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 25.7 MB
Author: Leslie Tomory

How did pre-industrial London build the biggest water supply industry on earth?

Beginning in 1580, a number of competing London companies sold water directly to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city’s houses had water connections―making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth.