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1838 Northern
Liberties Gas Works
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Stock Code NLG01 |
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Unissued certificate in this
Philadelphia-based gas company. This is an original certificate
from when the company was established in 1838, capitalised at
$200,000. Black and white certificate
with black ornate border on the left hand side.
Certificate size is 26 cm
wide x 14 cm high (11" x 6"). It will be mounted in a mahogany
frame, with gold inlay, size 40 cm wide x 30 cm high.
The certificate is shown
unframed as all items are mounted to order.
A perfect personalised
gift for someone who:
- works or worked in the
gas industry
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Framed Price : £80.00
Unframed Price : £40.00 |
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The company was organized under an ordinance of
the District of the Northern Liberties in 1838, with an authorized capital
of $100,000, divided into shares of $50 each. In 1844 it was incorporated
with its capital stock limited to $200,000. Its purpose was to ‘construct
and maintain suitable works for the manufacture of high carburetted hydrogen
gas from bituminous coal and other substances, for the purpose of public and
private illumination in the district of the Northern Liberties, or in
streets dividing that district from those opposite.’
This plant is noteworthy because it was the first to extract gas from native
supplies of bituminous coal along the Monongahela, Ohio, and Allegheny
rivers.
Inventor Joseph Battin was appointed superintendent of the Gas Works, by the
Board of Managers of Northern Liberties in 1841. He contributed much to gas
technology by perfecting a machine for breaking and screening coal in his
own shop near the gas works. Battin obtained the first U.S. patent granted
for a ‘coal-breaking machine’ in 1843. Further refinements on the breaker
caused Pennsylvania coal land operators to sign lucrative agreements with
him.
Northern Liberties remained the only private gas company after the 1854
Consolidation of the municipalities in Philadelphia County.
It operated until 1956 when the Philadelphia Gas Works absorbed it.
© Roy E. Goodman and David G. Orr, Ph.D., Workshop of the World (Oliver
Evans Press, 1990). |
