Abraham Pineo Gesner, ONB (/ˈɡɛsnər/; May 2, 1797 – April 29, 1864) was a Nova Scotian and New Brunswickan physician and geologist who invented kerosene...

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...

Gesner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797–1864), Canadian physician and geologist Alonzo Gesner (1842–1912)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Geologists were first attracted to this locality in the late 1820s with Abraham Gesner, Richard Brown, Thomas Jackson and Francis Alger all making important...

"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...

Soddy Josephson voltage standard - Brian Josephson Kerosene invented : Abraham Gesner and James Young. Kinetic theory of gases developed : James Maxwell....

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...

Indies Station, Cochrane became acquainted with geologist and physicist Abraham Gesner in Halifax. The pair planned a commercial venture that would supply...

German Jewish historian of ancient economics, born in Giessen, Hesse Abraham Pineo Gesner – physician and geologist, inventor of Kerosene Gerhard Herzberg...

(1935) Chief Dan George (2008) Marie-Joséphine Gérin-Lajoie (1993) Abraham Gesner (2000) Humphrey Gilbert (1983) Frederick Newton Gisborne (1987) Lorne...

stub Abraham Gesner (1839). First report on the geological survey of the province of New-Brunswick. Saint John. ISBN 9780665448102. Abraham Gesner (1840)...

1861) April 29 – George Don, Scottish botanist (died 1856) May 2 – Abraham Gesner, Canadian inventor of kerosene (died 1864) May 30 – Karl Friedrich Naumann...

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...

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...

Donat, actor Gilbert Lafayette Foster, 6th Canadian Surgeon General Abraham Gesner, inventor of kerosene Bryan Gibson, boxer Benjamin Jackson, sailor and...

Two succeeded: Scottish chemist James Young, and Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner. Both distilled their lamp oils from coal or coal-like raw materials...

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...

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...

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...

Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, Viola Desmond Fairview Cemetery, Halifax. Many victims of the RMS Titanic...