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1820 - 1829
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| 1820s |
Manufactured gas selling at about $10.00/mcf. Gas holder design reaches 15,000 cf capacity. |
| 1820 |
J.B. Nelson (England) invents the fish-tail gas burner for lamps Establishment of the worth of manufactured gas for lighting. Malm patents first dry gas meter At London. London Gas Light & Coke Co. made to desist from dumping tar and tar liquors into Thames sewers. Paris streets first lit with manufactured gas. Introduction of union jet or fish-tail burner of 2 jets of gas, giving 15 candle power illumination. John Grafton invents the first refractory clay gas retorts invented, worldwide, in Scotland; Not used importantly in England until 1844. |
| 1821 |
Manufactured gas becomes successful at Baltimore. Natural gas discovered at Fredonia, NY, Gunsmith W.A. Hart fashions supply pipes for lights. |
| 1822 |
Four large gas companies now present at London, employing 1315 retorts and 47 gas holders, making 397,000,000 cf gas annually. First gas plant at Boston, MA (Boston Gas Light Co.). |
| 1823 |
Establishment of New York Gas-Light Company; Street lights installed south of Grant St.; Gas not manufactured in quantity until 1827. New York Gas Light Company manufactured gas from wood rosin; probably on coke reactant bed. |
| 1824 |
First oil-gas plant, established at Aberdeen, Scotland. Outside-guided telescopic-lift gas holders in use. |
| 1825 |
Pioneer gas exhauster invented by S. Broadmeadow, UK. Cornelius Whitehouse receives patent for improvements in iron "gun-barrel" gas pipes. Samuel Crossley invents the dry-gas station governor; Hicks invents the water heater (England). Faraday discovers benzene, as deposited in portable gas cylinders. |
| 1826 |
Anthracene (C14H10) first isolated from coal tar, by French Chemists Dumas and Laurent. Analine discovered by Otto Unverdorben, of Germany. Invention of first commercial manufactured gas stove; James Sharp, Northampton Gas Co., UK1830 |
| 1827 |
Beginning of design and construction of UK gas holders in the open, outside of enclosing and generally octagonal brick houses to mitigate the effects of gas explosions. |
| 1828 |
Wm. A. Hart fuels light-house at Barcelona Harbor, Westfield, NY, with local natural gas. Daniel Ellis, Edinburgh, publishes Considerations Relative to Nuisance in Coal-Gas Works. |
| 1829 |
Alleged 200 manufactured gas plants operating in Britain. First externally framed (guide fame) gas holder built, Fulham Station, London; considered "large" at 50 ft diameter, 18 ft deep, and holding 35,000 cf gas. |
