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1781 patent - Stove for Warming Buildings (page 1)
English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1853, 2825 - 2869, Volumes 1224-1331
1781 patent - Stove for Warming Buildings (page 2)
English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1853, 2825 - 2869, Volumes 1224-1331
The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement, Volumes 87-88, Walter King., 1904
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1781 patent - Stove for Warming Buildings (page 1)
English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1853, 2825 - 2869, Volumes 1224-1331
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1781 patent - Stove for Warming Buildings (page 2)
English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1853, 2825 - 2869, Volumes 1224-1331
1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, UK)
...John Baptist von Helmont, born at Brussels in 1677, while engaged in chemical research, discovered gas and named it. An English rector, Rev. Dr. John Clayton, discovered coal gas in 1792, thereby causing great consternation in his village in Wales. It was nearly 40 years later that the practicability of gas for cooking was demonstrated by James Sharp, of Northampton, England...
The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 2, 1931
...'Mr. James Sharp, for many years Engineer to the Southampton Gas works. In a pamphlet which was published by him in 1851, he stated that it was then upwards of 24 years since he first introduced the application of gas to cooking, and referred to a lecture given by him in June, 1837, at the the Mechanics' Institution at Southampton, on which occasion he cooked a substantial supper which was partaken by a large number of the company. He further mentions, as one of the obstacles which had to be contended with in introducing this system of ...Read MORE...
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...John Baptist von Helmont, born at Brussels in 1677, while engaged in chemical research, discovered gas and named it. An English rector, Rev. Dr. John Clayton, discovered coal gas in 1792, thereby causing great consternation in his village in Wales. It was nearly 40 years later that the practicability of gas for cooking was demonstrated by James Sharp, of Northampton, England...
The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 2, 1931
...'Mr. James Sharp, for many years Engineer to the Southampton Gas works. In a pamphlet which was published by him in 1851, he stated that it was then upwards of 24 years since he first introduced the application of gas to cooking, and referred to a lecture given by him in June, 1837, at the the Mechanics' Institution at Southampton, on which occasion he cooked a substantial supper which was partaken by a large number of the company. He further mentions, as one of the obstacles which had to be contended with in introducing this system of ...Read MORE...
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The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement, Volumes 87-88, Walter King., 1904
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