Friedrich Albrecht winemaker

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Friedrich Albrecht winemaker 1830
Winemaker's grave in Paris

Friedrich Albrecht Winzer , also Frederick Albert Winsor , (* 1762 or 1763 in Braunschweig ; † May 11, 1830 in Paris ) was a German pioneer of gas lighting .

Life

In 1799 Vintners went to Great Britain and began to be interested in the technology and economy of fuels. In 1802 he traveled to Paris to examine the gas lamp patented by Philippe Lebon . On the way back he demonstrated a thermal lamp in Braunschweig and left with a privilege granted by Georg III. equipped to use the illuminating gas for city lighting. In 1803 he made his first public experiments in the London Lyceum and on the beach, later on the king's birthday in the garden of Charlton Palace.

On May 18, 1804, he was granted patent 2764 in England to use gas for city lighting (further patents from February 21, 1807 and February 7, 1809 for gas stoves and cleaners). His colleague Stone invented the cutting torch in 1805. Time and again he found sponsors for his ventures, but for a long time the cleaning of the gas was not going to be satisfactory. In 1807 he founded a gas works, with which he lit one side of the Pall Mall with gas lamps from his house in 1810 . In 1810/12 he founded the Gaslight and Coke Company, which was soon headed by Friedrich Accum . However, he failed to secure a due share of the profit. The same happened to him at the foundation of the gas company in Paris in 1815 (the previous year the Lebon privilege had expired), which made little progress and was liquidated in 1819. In France he had many adversaries and it was another 20 years before gas light found popularity here. By 1825 the Windsor Company had several large gas works in London and the suburbs. In 1832 the pipelines were 120 miles long.

The vintner is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. His son of the same name is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery .

Publications

  • Prosperity of England midst the clamors of ruin, by a merchant of London ; 1799
  • A national light and heat company: for providing our streets and houses with light and heat, on similar principles, as they are now supplied with water, demonstrated with the patentee's authority and instructions, by Professor Hardie, at the Theater of Sciences ... where it is proved by positive experiments and decisive calculation, that the destruction of smoke would open unto the empire of Great Britain new and unparalelled sources of inexhaustible national wealth, at this most portentous crisis of Europe, worth the whole century of inventions of the celebrated Marquis of Westminster ; 1806

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Albrecht Winzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Feldhausm/feldhausm347-362.pdf
  2. ^ About the originators of gas lighting in England and France. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 38, 1830, Miszelle 5, pp. 410-411.
  3. ^ Foreign countries, Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 764
  4. ^ The new book of inventions, trades and industries ; Volume 5, p. 262
  5. ^ S. Smiles: Men of Invention and Industry ; P. 87
personal data
SURNAME Winegrower, Friedrich Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winsor, Frederick Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pioneer of gas lighting
DATE OF BIRTH 1762 or 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1830
Place of death Paris