The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Murdock, William, 1754-1839

LC control no.n 87933824
Personal name headingMurdock, William, 1754-1839
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Murdoch, William, 1754-1839
Found inHis An account of the application of the gas from coal to Ĺ“conomical purposes, 1808: caption t.p. (Mr. William Murdock) p. 15 (signed William Murdock)
NUC pre-56 (Murdock, William, 1754-1839)
Britannica online, viewed Apr. 14, 2005 (William Murdock, b. Aug. 21, 1754, Old Cumnock, Ayr, Scot., d. Nov. 15, 1839, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.; Scottish inventor, the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power)
Biography Resource Center online, viewed Apr. 14, 2005 (William Murdock; b. 1754, d. 1839)
Biographical dictionary online, viewed Apr. 14, 2005 (Murdock, William, British engineer and inventor, 1754-1839)
Griffiths, J.C. The third man, 1992: t.p. (William Murdoch, 1754-1839, inventor of gas lighting) text and bibliography (William Murdoch)
Invalid LCCNnr 94000937