The Constant, a History of Getting Things Wrong

In 1867, 2,513 cargo ships went down off the coast of England with a total of 1,333 hands. There were more ships around to sink in the 1800s than the 1700s. By the 19th century, hundreds of ships were sinking unnecessarily every year and taking hundreds of sailors with them. To grasp the germ, the beginning of the trouble that fly the old lady swallowed, we have to travel east, from Cornwall to London. And back to the 1680s, there were around 80 coffee shops in London,. But only one of them is of interest to us, the one on Tower Street owned by George Lloyd. In some ways, coffee houses of the 17th