This Week in History: Natural Gas lights Philadelphia
February 7, 2012February 8, 1836 – Natural Gas lights Philadelphia
Forty-six natural gas lights along Philadelphia’s Second Street are lit for the first time by employees of the newly formed Gas Works — the first municipally owned natural gas distribution company.
Today there are more than 900 public natural gas systems; the Philadelphia Gas Works is the largest. America’s first commercial gas lighting company, the Gas Light Company of Baltimore, Maryland (now Baltimore Gas and Electric Company), incorporated in 1817. It distributed gas manufactured from tar and later coal… [read more]
Source: American Oil & Gas Historical Society
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:06 am
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