>In 1901 a pharmaceutical salesman named Sidney Reilly set out of Tehran with a case of patent medicines. Charming and handsome, he swiftly became a regular face at the dances and cocktail parties of the city's various international locations, as well as an intimate of the Grand Vizier to the Shah. After staying for several months Reilly departed with a book for of medicine orders, all of which were subsequently fulfilled. it was only when Reilly's grateful clients tried to order medicines a second time that people began to scratch their heads.The man couldn't be traced. His company didn't exist. Nor, for that matter, did Reilly.

>Sydney Riley was a nomme de guerre of a Russian Jew called Georgi Rosenblum, who left Odessa in 1893. The man himself was a chameleon. At times he claimed to be the son of an Irish Seaman. At other times the son of a Catholic clergyman, and at yet others the son of a Russian Aristocrat. After spells as a roadmender, a brothel doorman, and a docker in Rio de Janeiro, he ended up working as a cook for a British intelligence expedition. This enigmatic man was paid as an informant by Scotland Yard's Special Branch, and in later life served as the clandestine head of the British Secret Service Bureau in Russia. His real mission in Tehran was to look into the activities of one William Darcy, an Australian gold miner who had obtained a £10,000 concession from the Shah of Persia to exploit the land putative oil resources.

>The British Government, appreciating the potential of this new fuel source and keen to protect it's own access to it, was nervous. Persia lay in the buffer zone between Russia and British India, who's ongoing cat & mouse struggles were dubbed "The Great Game" by Rudyard Kipling. For Britain the Middle East covered vital transit routes to the Eastern colonies of India and Malaya. For Russia it was an ambivalent and troublesome territory on the fringes of it's own (mostly Islamic) colonies.

>Both sides had pressing reasons to seek and keep the upper hand, and the presence of oil intensified them. With his Russian background Reilly was considered the perfect man to investigate. On returning to HQ he confirmed that discovery of oil was imminent. Russia, he proposed, could be bought off with Territory in Persia's Northern provinces. The two powers could effectively carve up the land between them.

>>391217
>18th centry
century, and you mean the 19th

>factory owners looked for ways to maximize production
that was very much the 19th century, and it was profit they were attempting to maximise, not output. Prior to the 19th century, factories, or manufactories, were sites in which slaves or prisoners did traditional handicrafts or commodity (as in "bulk good") production like sugar.

>which prompted engineers to look for more efficient ways of providing lighting
Engineering only really began in the 1830s, and even then, as a habit of unusual craftsmen and skilled workers in the ONLY THEN DEVELOPING mass wrought iron and steel industries.

I'd suggest that Robert Winston is a fucking mong.

>Nothing was done about Reilly's recommendation until 1905, when the British Government learned that the Propector Darcy was bankrupt and trying to find someone to whom he could sell his concession. Reilly was dispatched to Cannes, where Darcy was rumored to be undertaking negotiations with the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

>Disguised as a Catholic Priest, seeking donations from wealthy holiday makers for his orphanage, Reilly kept watch on the Rothschild yacht, which Darcy was visiting every day. Seizing his moment Reilly stormed on board in his Priestly gear, begging his reluctant hosts to show mercy on his poor orphans. Taking advantage of the confusion this caused, he pulled the astonished Darcy aside and told him that the British Government would pay double whatever the Rothschild's were offering. He had just enough time to convey this before the stunned yacht party agreed to make a sizable donation to the fake Priest and his orphanage.

>History doesn't recall what Reilly did with the money. It does, however, recall the deal he struck for the British government. This led to the formation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and later later British Petroleum...in which, on the advice of a young minister named Winston Churchill, the British Government acquired a 51% share.

>Oil was struck in 1908 in such abundance as to ensure Britain decades worth of access to to a vital fuel source. it's abundance influenced Churchill in his decision to convert the British Fleet from coal to oil, giving it a significant advantage in the First World War. One matched only by the power of the oil fueled tank on land.

>Reilly's covert missions had a palpable effect on global history. Not least because because the confirmed our devotion to carbon fuels for a century to come. Continuing his career as a British agent, Reilly was awarded the Military Cross in 1919. After many espionage operations he was eventually arrested in the Soviet Union and interrogated by the OGPU. In 1925 he was executed in the forest near Moscow, but he lives on today as the inspiration for Ian Fleming's character James Bond.

>>391232
>output
>Not related to profit in any way.

>>391232
Don't be a faggot. Most of what your freaking out over seems to be typos from OP.

well I hate to be /pol/ but
JEWS

>>393060
>bar jews from doing all jobs except lending and selling secondhand items
>complain when lending gets them rich

antisemitic historian logic

>>393094
>be insular group who have ingrained hatred of goyim
>swindle them again and again
>be butthurt when people find out

Stereotypes are present for a reason bud.

>>393107
>swindle them again and again

Maybe you should read a bit about how English kings used to swindle Jews with the loan system and pogroms.

>>393121
Doesn't really justify their nature. 2 wrongs don't make a right.

>>392698
Wrong fucking century and causation failure is a typo... Sure cunt