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...... Natural gas has been known to humanity for millennia. Thousands of years ago, people would find natural gas seeps that had made it to the surface and had been ignited by lightning. People then didnt understand the processes behind these eerily burning places and became convinced they were supernatural or of divine origin. Sometimes they built temples over these divine flame locations. The Chinese were the first to put the natural gas to work. Around 2,500 years ago, they used bamboo to pipe gas from shallow pockets to the coast where the gas was ignited under large pans of sea water to recover the salt (NEED, 2007)
In the US the first natural gas well was dug in Fredonia, New York in the early 1800s. Gas became popular in larger cities during the 1800s for lighting. Wealthy people even had gas lighting in their homes (NEED, 2007). With the advent of electricity, natural gas was repositioned for heating and cooking. Broad acceptance of gas was handicapped by a lack of a good delivery system. At that time, there wasnt a way to pump large volumes of gas very far. Gas needed to be used very close to where it

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