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2 unusual facts about Gas lighting


Gaslight

Gas lighting, the use of flammable gas such as natural gas as a light source

Gilman, Taylor County, Wisconsin

In 1915 three gas lights lit the streets at night - the only street lights between Owen and Ladysmith at the time.



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Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis

Powis was chairman of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company and of Welshpool Gas Company, who provided gas-lighting in Welshpool town.

Grove House, Harrogate

Built in 1745-54 as World's End Inn, and the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating, today it is a convalescence and old aged persons rest home, owned and operated by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB).