biography
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| lived:
| (1781–1861)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He was taught some science by John Dalton, and then became an apprentice at Boulton and Watt's engineering works, where he saw William Murdock's early experiments with coal gas lighting. He left the firm in 1805 and continued to work on improved methods of producing coal gas, leading to his appointment in 1813 as chief engineer of the Chartered Gas Co, for whom he successfully illuminated an entire district of London by gas (1814). He also invented the water gas-meter. |
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