Your Gas Range is How Old?

I find this stuff interesting, even if some of you don't! Here is a picture of an ad I saw in an 1856 City Directory which is shelved at our local library main branch. I thought it was interesting because gas supply in Dayton became available around 1850.



So you know what I had to do? That's right! I went to the US patent office web site and started searching for the patent and here it is;




A counter top gas burner! I thought these were so 90s but it turns out that they were so 50s........ 1850s that is!