[permalink] [id link]
In 1853 he observed by chance the primitive oil-gathering industry in western Pennsylvania, although his interest in what was then known as " rock oil " had been piqued by seeing samples while a student at Dartmouth College.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
1853 and observed
In 1853 the Times observed that " it was Mr Charles Villiers who practically originated the Free Trade movement ".
In 1853, with a contingent of Army Engineers passing through searching for the best route to build the railroad, Geologist William P. Blake observed that the once-extensive vineyards were falling to decay, with fences broken down and animals roaming freely through it.
In his book Psychomancy ( 1853 ), Page observed that the rapping sounds came from underneath the girls ' long dresses.
An 1853 account by Henry Bleby described how three or four simultaneous executions were commonly observed ; bodies would be allowed to pile up until workhouse negroes carted the bodies away at night and bury them in mass graves outside town.
" French also observed that the Pilgrim's narrative mentions the Crimean War, which began in 1853.
After reaching Berlin in late January 1853, he and his companion discovered that every step they took was observed by the Prussian secret police.
1853 and by
Trade links with the rest of the Australian states were established with the Murray River being successfully navigated in 1853 by Francis Cadell, an Adelaide resident.
Swedish engineers Georg and Edvard Scheutz, inspired by a description of the difference engine, created a mechanical calculation device based on the design in 1853.
High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.
* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).
This, along with European diseases, so impacted the Nicoleños, that by 1853, only one living Nicoleña person remained.
On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.
Le Plat ( Antwerp, 1779 ) and by F. Schulte and A. L. Richter ( Leipzig, 1853 ).
Another early example of a whodunit is a subplot in the novel Bleak House ( 1853 ) by Charles Dickens.
** Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ( 1853 Estonian mythology )
Following his education in Giessen, he took postdoctoral fellowships in Paris ( 1851 – 52 ), in Chur, Switzerland ( 1852 – 53 ), and in London ( 1853 – 55 ), where he was decisively influenced by Alexander Williamson.
Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 ( revised 1868 ).
In response this latest change of mind by the Ottomans / Turks, the Russians, on 2 July 1853 occupied the Turkish-satellite states of Wallachia and Moldavia, as they had during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774.
A pen and ink study by John Ruskin, 1853, is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Schumann, amazed by the 20-year-old's talent, published an article entitled "" ( New Paths ) in the 28 October 1853 issue of the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik alerting the public to the young man, who, he claimed, was " destined to give ideal expression to the times.
A biography, Memoirs of John Abernethy, by George Macilwain ( 1797 – 1882 ), appeared in 1853.
On the night of July 31, 1853, doctors at the local hospital needed to perform an emergency operation, virtually impossible by candlelight.
In early 1853 the House of Representatives passed a bill by a 107-to-49 vote that organized the Nebraska Territory in land west of Iowa and Missouri.
Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 ( revised 1868 ).
However in the 19th century the river supported a substantial commercial trade using shallow-draft paddle steamers, the first trips being made by two boats from South Australia on the spring flood of 1853.
The Kingdom of Sikkim, which had already lost its Darjeeling region to British India in 1853, was annexed by the post-colonial Republic of India in April 1975 and, in the following month, Sikkim's people voted to join the Indian Union.
The United States acquired the southwestern boot heel of the state and southern Arizona below the Gila river in the mostly desert Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which was related to the construction by the US of a transcontinental railroad.
The Saharan family was recognized by Heinrich Barth in 1853, the Nilotic languages by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1880, the various constituent branches of Central Saharan ( but not the connection between them ) by Friedrich Müller in 1889, and the Maban family by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes in 1907.
1853 and industry
After the inauguration of the railway to Königsberg in 1853, Elbing's industry began to grow.
The Cherry industry that is so prevalent in Northport today had just begun in 1853 on Reverend Smith's farm.
" A further boon to the area's reputation as an industry and transportation center came with the addition of railroads in 1853.
As stated by Joseph Whitworth in his influential report on industry dated from 1853, literacy rates were higher in the United States.
Discovery of coal deposits aided the further development of the steel industry in the state, and by 1853 Cleveland was the third largest iron and steel producer in the country.
1853 and western
* Memoirs of my life: including in the narrative five journeys of western explorations during the years 1842, 1843 – 4, 1845 – 6 – 7, 1848 – 9, 1853 – 4 by John c. Fremont
Fulton County was created from the western half of DeKalb County in 1853.
In 1853, Fulton County was formed from the western half of DeKalb, divided along a perfectly straight and due north / south line down the middle ( along which Moreland Avenue now runs ).
In 1853 Lewis Grist bought his father's newspaper and changed the name to the Yorkville Enquirer, which was published weekly until 2006, when it was merged with the Clover Herald to form the Enquirer-Herald, a weekly newspaper covering western York County.
On December 22, 1853, part of the western portion of the county was included in the newly formed Coos County.
The first railway in the town was a branch line from the Bristol and Exeter Railway near Taunton to a terminus at on the western side of the town, which opened on 1 October 1853.
During his reign there was much internal turmoil as a result of Japan's first major contact with the United States, which occurred under Commodore Perry in 1853 and 1854, and of the subsequent " re-opening " of Japan to western nations.
They base this theory upon Ii ’ s 1853 proposal concerning the Japanese negotiations with commodore Matthew Perry, where Ii realized that Japan couldn ’ t stand up to the western powers and so suggested a policy of placation while the Japanese built up their armed forces ( which was the tactic chosen by the Meiji government ).
* " Description of new species of Reptilia from western Africa ," 1853, 64: 62-65
In 1853, the expedition was in the western Sudan.
From 1853 to 1857, he was United States district attorney for the western district of Massachusetts ; and from 1857 to 1875, he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.
Beginning in 1853, Bell represented Texas ' western district in the U. S. House of Representatives for two terms.
He taught school in western New York before going to Illinois in 1853, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1855.
The North & South Western Junction Railway opened its Kew station in 1853 ( closed in 1866 ) on the western curve and in 1862 added on the eastern curve its Kew Bridge platforms ( closed 1940 ) connected to the LSWR station.
Brace ’ s vision of migrating children to live with the western Christian farming families was widely supported by wealthy New York families – the first $ 50 was given by Mrs. John Astor in 1853.
In 1853, he made a hunting and trapping expedition some 1, 200 miles from his base camp in California to eastern Washington Territory ( what is now western Montana ).
As minister for foreign affairs in 1853 Garašanin was decidedly opposed to Serbia joining Russia in war against Ottoman Turkey and the western powers.
1.355 seconds.