File:WEBB(1892) p474 - McIlhenny, George A.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,410 × 1,502 pixels, file size: 1,015 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
McIlhenny, George A.
Title
McIlhenny, George A.
Description
McIlhenny was Washington Gas Light Company
Date 1892
date QS:P571,+1892-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
British Library HMNTS 10412.i.12.
Notes George Alexander Mcllhenny was born in the north of Ireland in 1805. At the age of eight, he came to the United States. He was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia, and learned the engineer's and machinist's profession in the same city. After quitting the public schools, he paid particular attention to gas engineering, and at the age of twenty-two he took charge of the gas works at Macon, Georgia. He came to Washington and took charge of the Washington Gas Company's works on the 7th of March, 1865, and has had charge of them every since. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Belt Line Railroad Company, and is the author of the ticket system in the street railroad service. He is at present a director and vice-president of the West End National Bank; a director in the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company; he is one of the executive committee having in charge the construction of the cable railroad; is a director in the Corcoran Insurance Company, and is president, and engineer of the Washington Gas Light Company. He is president of the board of trustees of the West End Presbyterian Church. He is an inventor of several gas appliances,and a writer on subjects connected with the use of gas. He has had several patents issued to him, and his articles have been published in the proceedings of the American Gas Light Association.
Source/Photographer

Image extracted from page 474 of Centennial History of the city of Washington, D.C., by WEBB, William B. - and WOOLDRIDGE (John) of Cleveland, Ohio. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.

This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

 View image on Flickr   View all images from book 

 View catalogue entry for book. 

العربية‎ | беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎ | English | français | galego | македонски | suomi | +/−

Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current18:50, 15 June 2014Thumbnail for version as of 18:50, 15 June 20141,410 × 1,502 (1,015 KB)Metilsteiner (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WEBB(1892)_p474_-_McIlhenny,_George_A.jpg&oldid=713275054"