Frederick Albert Winsor
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
1799 went winemakers to Britain and became interested in technology and economics of fuels to be interested. In 1802 he traveled to Paris to study the gas lamp, Philippe Lebon had patented. On the return trip he demonstrated in Braunschweig a thermal lamp, and went, with a privilege of George III. equipped, remember to use the lamp gas for city lighting. In 1803 he made his first public trials at London's Lyceum and at the beach, and later to the King's birthday in the garden of Charlton Palace.
On May 18, 1804 he received a patent in England in 2764 to use gas for city lighting ( additional patents on February 21, 1807 and February 7, 1809 for gas stoves and cleaner ). His employees Stone invented in 1805 the average burner. He kept finding sponsors for his ventures, but the purification of the gas did not succeed far from satisfactory. In 1807 he founded a gas station with which he lighted from his house in 1910 one side of Pall Mall with gas lamps. 1810/12, he founded the Gas Light and Coke Company, which soon Friedrich Accum board. He failed, however, to secure a fair share of the profits. The same thing happened to him in the foundation of the gas company to Paris in 1815 ( the year before had the privilege of Lebon expired), the progress made hardly and was liquidated in 1819. In France he had many adversaries and it took another 20 years until here the gas light was popular. 1825 had the Windsor 's Company, already several large gas works in London and the suburbs. 1832 tube lines had a length of 120 English miles.
Buried is winemaker at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His son of the same is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.
Publications
- Prosperity of England the clamors midst 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, demostrated with the patentee 's authority and instructions, by Professor Hardie, at the Theatre of Sciences ... where it is Proved by positive experiments and decisive calculation, did 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