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1800-1809
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| 1801 |
LeBon demonstrates his wood-gas lamps at Hotel Saagnelay, Paris; For heat and light and to light the garden; Napoleon ridicules the exhibit. |
| 1802 |
Murdock lights opposite corners of the Soho factory building at corner of Villa and Handsworth Roads, Birmingham, in celebration of Peace of Amiens, with France. Lebon installs/operates coal-gas and wood-fueled street lamps in Paris. Englishman Wm. Hasledine Pepys invents alternative gas holder, with water seal. American Benjamin Henfry receives patent for gas lighting. German industrial chemist Zuchas Winzler cooks food by gas for first time; Zunaim, Moravia. Natural gas first used to provide street lamps, at Genoa, Italy. British chemist, Sir Humphrey Davy, invents the carbide miner's lamp. |
| 1803 |
Murdock completes lighting of Soho factory. Benjamin Henfrey, exhibits illuminating coal-gas at Richmond, VA. Napoleon Bonaparte grants Le Bon concession over large pine forest, at Rouvray, near Havre, to establish pine-tar factory to produce 5 quintals (ca. 500 lbs.) per day for French Navy. |
| 1804 |
German Frederich Albrecht Winzler (Winsor) lectures on gas at Lyceum Theatre at London. Sir Walter Scott retorts "A madman proposing to light London with smoke." Boulton & Watt are manufacturing and selling Murdock's gas machines. Murdock installs residential gas lighting system for George Augustus Lee, at Manchester. Benjamin Henfrey generates gas and lights his house and a street lamp, at Washington, D.C. |
| 1805 |
Murdock lights Phillips & Lee textile factory at Salford, one of largest factories in England. First commercial gas lighting, foundries at Soho, Smethwick District, Birmingham, England, by Wm. Murdock, assisted by Samuel Clegg. Murdock's retorts were vertical, open, iron pots holding as much as 1500 lbs. of coal. Murdock's assistant Clegg, resigns and installs his own gas plant and lights the Henry Lodge cotton mill at Sowerby Bridge, Salford. Winsor installs his first bright coal gas street lights in extensive section of Pall Mall, London. |
| 1806 |
Both Murdock and Clegg adapt Argand burner, made for oil lamps, especially the 'cockspur' variety. Clegg's invents gas purification by wet lime, for removal of sulphretted hydrogen. David Melville, Pelham St., Newport, RI, places gas street lights in front of his home. |
| 1807 |
Murdock invents the everlasting D-shaped horizontal coal-gas retort; reports his greater findings before the Royal Society and is awarded the Rumford Gold Medal. |
| 1809 |
Winsor forms National Light & Heat Company but is denied Royal Charter and initiates a London newspaper war over the issue. |
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