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About the Museum History - 1817 onwards Making gas from coal Making gas from oil Natural Gas Natural gas conversion Gas distribution Gas in the home Strange but true! Return to Home Page |
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| Milestones in the Gas industry | |
| 1667 | Thomas Shirley described an inflammable gas seeping from coal measures near Wigan. |
| 1684 | John Clayton produced coal gas from the destructive distillation of coal and stored it in bladders. |
| 1727 | Stephen Hales stated that 'inflammable air' was produced when coal was heated in an enclosed vessel. |
| 1727 | Carlisle Spedding heated his office at Whitehaven colliery with mine gas (methane). |
| 1760 | A pilot plant built by George Dixon to make 'illuminating gas' is abandoned after an explosion. |
| 1782 | Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald lit Culross Abbey wth gas from his tar ovens. |
| 1792 | William Murdoch lit his house at Redruth, Cornwall by gas produced in an iron retort |
| 1801 | Philippe Lebon demonstrated gas lighting publically in Paris. |
| 1806 | Gas lighting installed in the Manchester cotton spinning factory of Phillips & Lee by William Murdoch. |
| 1807 | Pall Mall, London lit by gas supplied from Federick Winsor's centralised gasworks. |
| 1814 | Frederick Adham wrote the first authoritative treatise on gas manufacture. |
| 1817 | Samuel Clegg installed a gasworks at the Royal Mint and developed an efficient gas meter. |
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