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Previous | Home | NextCovent Garden, now famous for its Royal Opera House and other entertainment houses, at this time was the largest market in London. Boats from all over the world would come up the Thames (from the North Sea to the east) and deposit their wares on the north shore, to be taken up to Covent Garden Market. Long Acre, where the coaches were made, was the birthplace of Hatchett, the discoverer of niobium. The Crown and Anchor was an inn where the Royal Society met and discussed their discoveries and theories. Somerset House was the site of the Royal Society 1780-1856, during the time when Lavoisier's New Chemistry and Dalton's atomic theory were taking hold. Wollaston was developing his malleable platinum at his home laboratory on Cecil Street around 1800; he was involved in promoting Dalton's atomic theory and developing his theory of equivalents. The Victoria Embankment had not yet been developed (see below).
