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Frederick Albert Winsor

German inventor, one of the pioneers of gas lighting in the UK and France

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    Traité pratique de l'éclairage par le gaz inflammable contenant une description sommaire de l'appareil et du mécanisme employé pour l'illumination des rues, des maisons et des manufactures ... à l'aide du gaz hydrogène carburé ... / traduit de l'anglais sur la 3e édition de M. Accum; publié et augmenté par F.A. Winsor. Orné de huit planches.

    Friedrich Accum | Date: 1816
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    A national light and heat company for providing our streets and houses with hydrocarbonic gas-lights : on similar principles as they are now supplied with water : four tables of calculation ... prove the immense national profits and increase of revenue by the adoption of this plan, which is to be had at the National Light and Heat Company's office.

    Frederick Albert Winsor | Date: [1807?]

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