Gas Invention The Cornerstone of Modern Civilization

DTE Energy has a long history of serving Michigan with both electric and gas service dating back more than 150 years. Gas masks were developed in WWI to protect soldiers from the effects of chloride gas. This gas mask was worn by 21 year old Levi Nathan Cox from Clarendon, ... Read more! The history of natural gas. We have come a long way in extracting and using natural gas, from ancient civilizations lighting fires ... The Haber-Bosch Process. In 1905 Haber reached an objective long sought by chemists—that of fixing nitrogen from air. Atmospheric nitrogen, or nitrogen gas, is ... On July 25, 1916, Garrett made national news for using his gas mask to rescue men trapped after an explosion in an underground tunnel located 250 feet under ... The Volcano oil field was discovered in 1860, and from 1865 to 1870 drilling was very active, producing from the Salt sand at a depth of about ... The first use of pipelines to transport natural gas dates back more than 2,500 years, with the ancient Chinese using bamboo pipes to transport ... The ironies of gas warfare are vividly focused in the life of Fritz Haber, the German chemist who invented phosgene and also the 'Haber Process' which ... Germans introduce poison gas. On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of ... The history of Oklahoma Natural Gas spans a century of petroleum history and illustrates the industrial advances that brought amenities such as public ...