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| Milestones in the Gas industry (2) | |
| 1824 | Tate invented the telescopic gasholder. |
| 1826 | James Sharp installed an experimental gas cooker at his house in Northampton |
| 1855 | Invention of the Bunsen burner by Robert Bunsen |
| 1856 | Pettit & Smith produced the first practical fire |
| 1870 | T S Lacey patented the first prepayment meter |
| 1887 | The incandescent gas mantle was invented by Carl Auer |
| 1897 | Kent invented the inverted gas burner for lighting |
| 1923 | Thermostatic controls on gas ovens introduced |
| 1949 | Nationalisation of the gas industry. |
| 1953 | First gas from oil reforming plants opened |
| 1964 | First shipment of natural gas from Algeria arrived in Britain |
| 1965 | North sea gas discovered in the West Sole field |
| 1967 | North Sea gas pumped ashore at North Humberside |
| 1968 | Natural gas conversion programme starts at Burton on Trent |
| 1976 | Conversion programme completed |
| 1986 | Privatisation of the gas industry. Formation of British Gas plc |