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September 28, 1799.—One of the pioneers of gas lighting was Philippe Lebon, to whom a French patent for “Nouveaux moyens d'employer les combustibles plus utilement, soit pour la chaleur, soit pour la lumière, et d'en recueillir les divers produits” was granted on Sept 28, 1799. No practical use appears to have been made of Lebon's apparatus for lighting purposes, but he established a tar factory near Le Havre which obtained some success.
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Calendar of Patent Records. Nature 124, 502 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124502a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124502a0