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Persian people | Persian scholar Rhazes | Rāzi ( or Rhazes ) was the first to distill kerosene in the 9th century.
The process of distilling crude oil / petroleum into kerosene, as well as other hydrocarbon compounds, was first written about in the 9th century by the Persian scholar Rāzi ( or Rhazes ).
Abraham Gesner first distilled kerosene from bituminous coal and oil shale experimentally in 1846.
Despite clear priority of discovery, Gesner did not obtain his first kerosene patent until 1854, two years after James Young's US patent.
* January 7 – Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, creator of the first oil lamp ( b. 1822 )
* Ignacy Łukasiewicz 1822 – 1882 ; pharmacist ; deviser of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil
Numerous " firsts " in medical research, clinical care, and chemistry are attributed to him, including being the first to differentiate smallpox from measles, and the discovery of numerous compounds and chemicals including kerosene, among others.
The whaling business collapsed after 1847 initially with the discovery of other methods to create kerosene with the first being coal oil.
Modern versions of the kerosene lamp were later constructed by the Polish inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz in 1853 Lviv, and by Robert Edwin Dietz of the United States at about the same time ; it is not known which was first.
He was the first person in the United States to refine crude oil into lamp oil ( kerosene ).
Small quantities of oil were first refined into kerosene around 1876 near Tampico.
The first primary product was kerosene for lamps and heaters.
He obtaining patents for many inventions, including the first kerosene lamp successfully to burn a round wick, and a more effective method of manufacturing soap.
The five-cylinder kerosene one, with which he claims to have flown over Long Island Sound on 17 January 1902 was, I believe, the first aviation Diesel.
In early 1912, at the first cache, there was no kerosene ; the cans — soldered with tin — were empty.
Among his other achievements were the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp ( 1853 ), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe ( 1853 ), and the construction of the first oil well in Poland ( 1854 ).
In 1853 Jan Zeh, together with his associate Łukasiewicz, was the first in the world to distill clear kerosene from seep oil, Canada's Abraham Gesner having first refined kerosene from coal in 1846.

first and lamp
The first trial of a Davy lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on 9 January 1816.
Having already made his first appearance as a minor actor in " Aladdin and the miracle lamp " at the National Theatre of Hanover, he studied acting in Hamburg.
In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.
Although de Marignac was able to produce tantalum-free niobium on a larger scale by 1866, it was not until the early 20th century that niobium was first used commercially, in incandescent lamp filaments.
Mahen Theatre in Brno ( in what is now the Czech Republic ) was the first public building in the world to use Edison's electric lamps, with the installation supervised by Edison's assistant in the invention of the lamp, Francis Jehl.
* July 24 – Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward patent the first incandescent lamp with an electric light bulb.
The city walls were torn down between 1869 and 1889, efforts for a planned expansion of the city are evident as early as 1879, the first tram service started in 1888 and the city streets were illuminated with electric lamp posts in 1908.
Ding also used gimbals as pivotal supports for one of his incense burners and invented the world's first known zoetrope lamp.
Alhazen was the first to demonstrate this with his lamp experiment where several different light sources are arranged across a large area.
However, when Roger Lancelyn Green asked him how a lamp post came to be standing in the midst of Narnian woodland, Lewis was intrigued enough by the question to attempt to find an answer by writing The Magician's Nephew, which features a younger version of Professor Kirke from the first novel.
An example is Lucy Pevensie's discovery of the wardrobe, Narnia and a mysterious lamp post in the woods in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which creates a sense of suspense about an unknown land she is discovering for the first time.
* 1867 A. E. Becquerel demonstrates the first fluorescent lamp
* 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris.
* 1893 GE introduces first commercial fully enclosed carbon arc lamp.
In May 1937 a new white glass lamp with the RUC crest went up for the first time to replace the RIC crest still on many stations.
The lamp consists of two electrodes, first made from carbon but typically made today of tungsten, which are separated by a gas.
First, when the power is first switched on, the igniter / starter ( which is wired in parallel across the lamp ) sets up a small current through the ballast and starter.
" The first incandescent lamp by Woodward and Evans was constructed at Morrison's brass foundry in Toronto, and was a very crude affair.
Each contributed to the development of the incandescent lamp, but it was Swan who assembled the necessary components to make the first practical electric light bulb.
He first arrived around 1858 in New York City, where he was " probably one of those Chinese mentioned in gossip of the sixties as peddling ' awful ' cigars at three cents apiece from little stands along the City Hall park fence – offering a paper spill and a tiny oil lamp as a lighter ", according to author Alvin Harlow in Old Bowery Days: The Chronicles of a Famous Street ( 1931 ).
On January 29, 1894, the first electric lamp was placed in front of Town Hall.
.. the first Burgess was Winfred ( Daddy ) Glass and the first lamp lighter was John Kindle?

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But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.
It was her first smile.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.
The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

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