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    Abraham Pineo Gesner, ONB (/ˈɡɛsnər/; May 2, 1797 – April 29, 1864) was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene...
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  • was registered as a trademark by Nova Scotia geologist and inventor Abraham Gesner in 1854 before evolving into a generic trademark. It is sometimes spelled...
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  • Gesner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797–1864), Canadian physician and geologist Alonzo Gesner (1842–1912)...
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  • Abraham Gesner (1756–1851) was a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from...
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    earliest instances of this is the refining of paraffin from crude oil. Abraham Gesner developed a process to refine a liquid fuel (which he would later call...
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    of albertite and pitch that kerosene was first distilled in 1846 by Abraham Gesner, a New Brunswick geologist who had heard stories of rocks that burned...
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    by a process invented by Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner. Young won his patent lawsuit against the Gesner process in the United States in 1860. But by...
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  • 7, 2019. Then in 1846, a Nova Scotian physician and geologist named Abraham Gesner invented kerosene. This pioneering form of fossil fuel, which some called...
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    back another 88 years to 1842 and to the work of Dr. Abraham Gesner. On 5 April 1842, Abraham Gesner opened the Museum of Natural History, the precursor...
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  • invented by Olivia Poole in 1959 Kerosene – discovered in the 1840s by Abraham Gesner Lawn sprinkler – invented by Elijah McCoy LongPen – invented by Margaret...
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    with the discovery of whale oil. The use of whale oil declined after Abraham Gesner, a Canadian geologist, first refined kerosene in the 1840s, allowing...
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  • Scotia and land there; eventually resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone Abraham Gesner (1756–1851), served with the King's Orange Rangers during the American...
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    Aitken Former NHLer Jerry Byers Actor Peter Donat Inventor of kerosene Abraham Gesner Comedian Jay Malone Linguist Silas Tertius Rand Zoologist Austin L....
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    "I'm well in Acadia" pronounced in Chiac as "chu bien en Acadie". (Abraham Gesner, The industrial resources of Nova Scotia (Halifax, N.S.: A. & W. MacKinlay...
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    Geologists were first attracted to this locality in the late 1820s with Abraham Gesner, Richard Brown, Thomas Jackson and Francis Alger all making important...
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    Soddy Josephson voltage standard - Brian Josephson Kerosene invented : Abraham Gesner and James Young. Kinetic theory of gases developed : James Maxwell....
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    events set the stage for the Age of Oil: The first was in 1846, when Abraham Gesner invented kerosene making coal and petroleum practical raw materials...
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    Indies Station, Cochrane became acquainted with geologist and physicist Abraham Gesner in Halifax. The pair planned a commercial venture that would supply...
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  • (1935) Chief Dan George (2008) Marie-Joséphine Gérin-Lajoie (1993) Abraham Gesner (2000) Humphrey Gilbert (1983) Frederick Newton Gisborne (1987) Lorne...
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    stub Abraham Gesner (1839). First report on the geological survey of the province of New-Brunswick. Saint John. ISBN 9780665448102. Abraham Gesner (1840)...
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  • 1861) April 29 – George Don, Scottish botanist (died 1856) May 2 – Abraham Gesner, Canadian inventor of kerosene (died 1864) May 30 – Karl Friedrich Naumann...
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  • country's largest food distributor, Loblaws Companies Limited. Abraham Gesner Abraham Gesner gave the world a better light by creating a new lamp oil called...
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    1850s, the process to distill kerosene from petroleum was invented by Abraham Gesner. The demand for the petroleum as a fuel for lighting around the world...
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    Donat, actor Gilbert Lafayette Foster, 6th Canadian Surgeon General Abraham Gesner, inventor of kerosene Bryan Gibson, boxer Benjamin Jackson, sailor and...
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  • Two succeeded: Scottish chemist James Young, and Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner. Both distilled their lamp oils from coal or coal-like raw materials...
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  • German Jewish historian of ancient economics, born in Giessen, Hesse Abraham Pineo Gesner – physician and geologist, inventor of Kerosene Gerhard Herzberg...
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  • Allen Chipman and Ann Osborn. In 1815, he married Elizabeth Gesner, sister of Abraham Gesner. He married Jessie W. Hardy in 1841 after the death of his...
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    behave themselves. The light at Maughers Beach was used in 1851 by Abraham Gesner to test out the new fuel he had invented, kerosene, to replace whale...
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    Taku: the heart of North America's last great wilderness The Best of Abraham Gesner Poetic voices of the Maritimes: a selection of contemporary poetry 1984...
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  • Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, Viola Desmond Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic...
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