This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
March
27,
1893
Chemistry professor Francis P. Venable and University student William R. Kenan, Jr. demonstrated the industrial applications of calcium carbide--the source of acetylene--in Person Hall.Top |
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