Lebon, Philippe (Energy)

Philippe Lebon. (Source: Renewable Energy History Project, Radford University)

Lebon, Philippe

Published: June 19, 2008, 4:05 pm

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Philippe Lebon (1769-1804), a French engineer and chemist who invented an early lamp powered by an illuminating gas. By heating sawdust in a glass tube over a flame, Lebon produced the flammable gas that he used in his Thermolampe (heat lamp), which he patented and exhibited in 1799. For several months in 1801 he exhibited a large version of the lamp in a Paris hotel. William Murdoch, working independently in Scotland at the same time, produced, purified, and stored gas more successfully, introducing gas lighting.

Further Reading

• BookRags. Philippe Lebon from "World of Invention".

Citation

Cleveland, C. (2008). Lebon, Philippe. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Lebon,_Philippe_(Energy)