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A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas. Many of these have been made redundant in the developed world by the use of natural gas , though they are still used for storage space.
A coloured plate of a gas plant from Frederick Accum's A Practical Treatise on Gas-light (1815) From 1812 to approximately 1825, manufactured gas was predominantly an English technology. A number of new gas utilities were founded to serve London and other cities in the UK after 1812. Liverpool, Exeter, and Preston were the first in 1816.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent.
A gasholder house is a type of structure that was used to surround an iron gas holder, also known as a gasometer, in which coal gas was stored until it was needed. There are approximately a dozen of these structures—most constructed of brick in the latter-half of the 19th century—that still stand in the United States.
In 1822, his family began making pottery, using skills learned from their grandfather and father. Martha, sister of John, was the most famous. She married William Milhous in 1807, moved to Ohio, and became the great-great grandparent of Hannah Milhous Nixon, mother of President Richard Nixon.
A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed, but another plan to transport liquefied gas from Pennsylvania by tanker truck ...
Gas plant can refer to: Dictamnus or "Gas-plant", a flowering plant; Gas-fired power plant; Gas turbine power plant; Gasworks, an industrial plant for the production ...
Settled in 1823, Bradford was chartered as a city in 1837 [4] and emerged as a wild oil boomtown in the Pennsylvania oil rush in the late 19th century. The area's Pennsylvania Grade crude oil has superior qualities and is free of asphaltic constituents, contains only trace amounts of sulfur and nitrogen, and has excellent characteristics for refining into lubricants.