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May II, 1830. Friedrich Albrecht Winsor died.—A native of Brunswick, Winsor settled in England about the end of the eighteenth century. He lectured upon, the use of gas, in 1806 had an exhibition of appliances at 97 Pall Mall, London, and early the following year lit a part of that street with gas. This was the first street lighted in that way. He was connected with the Westminster Gas Light and Coke Company, and in 1815 went to Paris, where he died; there is a cenotaph to his memory in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 109, 630 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109630a0
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