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| Abraham Gesner | |
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Abraham was born on 1797 in Cornwallis, Township, Nova Scotia, Canada. Around the middle of the 18th century Abraham’s grandfater, Nicholas Gesner, came to America from the Netherlands. But came the time of the American Revolution, Gesner’s father had fled America to Canada at the age of 16. When he made it there, he was granted land in Nova Scotia. Here, he had a son and named him Abraham. As far as I know, there’s very little known about his childhood or there’s nothing noteworthy about it. When Abraham got older, he was unsuccessful in business ventures. He would have been screwed if it weren’t for his father-in-law who was a prominent physician in Nova Scotia. What he did was take Abraham and put him under a sort of debtor’s house arrest until Hebner decided to head off to England to study medicine. It was here he fell in love with geology, here he made an aquaintance of Charles Lyell among others. He would return to Nova Scotia in 1826 to continue studying medicine and geology and in the process gain money for it. Around this time, Charles T. Jackson and Francis Alger Jr. decided to go on a schooner and geologize Gener’s choosen territory… The Bay of Fundy. The two had made some geological observations to which Gesner already made. They published a report of this and in the process, pretty well robbed Gerner of the credit. Gesner would respond by making his own report by covering the same ground they did. When they saw his work, they immediately accused him of plagiarism. If this was a gesture of contempt, then would obviously get punished for it later. Despite this, his report was a success and overshadowed Alger’s and Jackson’s work. After writing this report, Gesner would run off to do a 4 year survey of New Brunswick in 1838, which was the first of Britians possessions outside of the country. He may or may not have been paid for this. Whatever the case of being paid or not, he then opened up his own science museum called “Gesner’s Museum” which was used for private purposes. This was considered the first museum of science ever, private or not, in British North America{AKA Canada}. Despite this, the museum was a financial failure. Due to this, his friends, in a way, pitied him and decided to give the museum to the Saint Jhon’s Medical Institute. This would eventually become the nucleus of the collections of stuff found in New Brunswick Museum. Gesner then moved back to Nova Scotia where he wrote and worked as a geological consultant. In his assessment reports he had a tendency to ridicule{Well, sort of} the “Yankee Capitalists” because he believed they only came BNA to exploit their resources while all the profit went to them. Ironically, it was Charles T. Jackson who came in to examine the “Yankee” mining interests. His comments were strangly similar to Gesner’s. It was during the Halifax period that Gesner would come to be in aqaintance of Thomas Cochrane. Thomas was known as a naval hero initially, however years before meeting Gesner, he laid a charge of cowardice before the enemy against his own superiors in Dundonald{An area around nothern Ireland} which gained him years of disgrace and voluntary exile. Cochrane’s family held land in Trinidad. His father appear to have bankrupted the family with experiments in gas lighting on the basis of Trinidad pitch. Yet there was sense of a sort here, for in the 1840's, thanks partly to the ruthless efficiency of the New England whaling fleet, whale oil, the illuminant of choice, was becoming increasingly scarce and costly. Thus it may well have been at the suggestion of Cochrane that Gesner began to work on lighting. Gesner conducted a lecture in 1846 in Prince Edward Island. This lecture was to display an illuminant{lighting} he had distilled from Triniad pitched and thus he baptised it “keroselene” which would soon thereafter be shortened to “kerosene.” It’s unknown whether at this time that the "kerosene" was in gas or liquid form. Probabilities point strongly to the former. Gesner died in Halifax on 1864. |
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