"At evening time it shall be light.--Zachariah
xiv. 7. "I am come a light into the world, that whoever
believeth in Me shall not abide in darkness.--John xii. 46."
[11] Mr. Parkes, in his well known Chemical Essays (ed. 1841, p.
157), after referring to the successful lighting up by Murdock of
the manufactory of Messrs. Phillips and Lee at Manchester in
1805, "with coal gas issuing from nearly a thousand burners,"
proceeds, "This grand application of the new principle satisfied
the public mind, not only of the practicability, but also of the
economy of the application; and as a mark of the high opinion
they entertained of his genius and perseverance, and in order to
put the question of priority of the discovery beyond all doubt,
the Council of the Royal Society in 1808 awarded to Mr. Murdock
the Gold Medal founded by the late Count Rumford."
[12] "Thus," says Mr. Charles Babbage, "in a future age, power
may become the staple commodity of the Icelanders, and of the
inhabitants of other volcanic districts; and possibly the very
process by which they will procure this article of exchange for
the luxuries of happier climates may, in some measure, tame the
tremendous element which occasionally devastates their
provinces."--Economy of Manufactures.
CHAPTER VI.
FREDERICK KOENIG: INVENTOR OF THE STEAM-PRINTING MACHINE.
"The honest projector is he who, having by fair and plain
principles of sense, honesty, and ingenuity, brought any
contrivance to a suitable perfection, makes out what he pretends
to, picks nobody's pocket, puts his project in execution, and
contents himself with the real produce as the profit of his
invention.
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