There existed much public fear over alleged negative health aspects of manufactured gas. 1810 First gas lighting in America, by David Melville, at Newport Rhode Island. British Parliament authorizes the King to grant a gas-manufacturing charter. 1811 German mineralogist W.A. Lampadeus lights street in front of his home at Freiburg, Germany. Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, UK, is lit with manufactured gas.
Clegg invents the hydraulic main for use with coal-gas retorts.
Saves firm from financial ruin. London church lit by gas. F.A. Accum publishes first treatise on gas making and invents light-oil recovery distillation. Invention of the batwing lamp burner, to stay with the gas industry to the end. First city gas lighting company established at Baltimore, Maryland, by Rembrandt Peale and others Gas street lamps not in place until 1821 and then probably the first in America.