The firm failed to modernise at the start of the 20th century, and was closed in 1929.
Following the war, Gascoigne and astronomer Gerald Kron used newly modernised telescopes at Mount Stromlo to determine that the distance between our galaxy and the Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxies had been underestimated by a factor of two.
At the same time there has generally been a sense of modernising forces at work, of a flushing out into the light from the dark days of the 70s and 80s when football was pretty much left to rot and fester like an obsolete piece of industrial plant.
Symbols, perhaps, of a Lahore that the government would prefer to modernise – or at least sanitise.
Student tuition fees were another example of Blair's drive to modernise, even at the risk of unpopularity.
Members of parliament will grill the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, on Tuesday about his plans to modernise governance at the central bank in light of the escalating foreign exchange scandal.
She grew up in a secular, modernising Baghdad at a time when Le Corbusier had been commissioned to build a sports complex, Frank Lloyd Wright was working on a cultural centre, and Walter Gropius had built a university campus.
London Underground's chief operating officer, Phil Hufton, said: "It is nonsense to suggest our plans to modernise staffing at stations will not benefit passengers.
Clothes, shoes, cups and furniture are made by craftspeople she and her team have sought out all over China, bringing to city shoppers traditional arts that have somehow survived in a country modernising itself at breakneck speed.
The company's significance to the Welsh and UK economy was recognised by a Queen's Award for Enterprise and financial support from the UK and Welsh governments to modernise facilities at Broughton and help train its workforce.
