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  2. William Murdoch - Wikipedia

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    Murdoch was the inventor of the oscillating cylinder steam engine, and gas lighting is attributed to him in the early 1790s, as well as the term "gasometer". However the Dutch-Belgian Academic Jean-Pierre Minckelers had already published on coal gasification and gas lighting in 1784, and had used gas to light his auditorium at the University of ...

  3. Timeline of lighting technology - Wikipedia

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    1780 Ami Argand invents the central draught fixed oil lamp. 1784 Argand adds glass chimney to central draught lamp. 1786 William Nicholson proposes use of concentric wicks. [3] 1792 William Murdoch begins experimenting with gas lighting and probably produced the first gas light in this year.

  4. Portal:Scotland/Selected biographies/29 - Wikipedia

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    Murdoch was the inventor of the oscillating cylinder steam engine, and gas lighting is attributed to him in the early 1790s, as well as the term "gasometer". However the Dutch-Belgian Academic Jean-Pierre Minckelers had already published on coal gasification and gas lighting in 1784, and had used gas to light his auditorium at the University of ...

  5. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.. Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.

  6. List of Scottish inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839) [28] The Stirling ... Chainsaw invented by surgeons John Aitken and James Jeffray for widening the birth canal ...

  7. Bello Mill - Wikipedia

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    The neighboring Bello Mill Cottage is famous for being the birthplace of William Murdoch, who was born in 1754. Murdoch invented gas lighting and did experiments on steam engines in the nearby Murdoch's Cave. Murdoch's father John Murdoch was tenant and millwright at Bello Mill, which he had taken over in 1754.

  8. Lugar Water - Wikipedia

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    The river flows through the small mining village of Lugar, where at Bellow Mill, William Murdoch, the inventor of gas lighting was born in 1754. A cave where he carried out a lot of his experiments can still be seen on the riverbank.

  9. Lugar, East Ayrshire - Wikipedia

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    Near Lugar, at Bello Mill Cottage on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, William Murdoch was born in 1754. Murdoch did some important experiments on steam engines and was the inventor of gas lighting. Murdoch's Cave where he carried out a lot of his experiments on coal gas can still be seen on the riverbank of the Lugar Water.