Acetylene of 180°. Acetylene was discovered in 1836 by Edmund Davy, who identified it as a "new carburet of hydrogen". It was rediscovered in 1860 by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, who coined the name "acétylène". Berthelot's empirical formula for acetylene (CH), as well as the alternative name "quadricarbure d'hydrogène" ("hydrogen quadricarbide"), were incorrect because chemists at that time used the wrong atomic mass for carbon (6 instead of 12). Berthelot was able to prepare this gas by passing vapours of organic compounds (methanol, ethanol, etc.) through a red-hot tube and collecting the effluent. He also found that acetylene was formed by
Philip Schuyler (born 1836) Philip Schuyler (born 1836) Philip George Schuyler (June 20, 1836 – November 19, 1906) was a soldier, clubman, philanthropist, and prominent member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. Schuyler was a descendant of both the Hamilton and Schuyler family, of which he was the de facto head of during his adulthood. Schuyler was born on June 20, 1836 in New York City. He was the only son of George Lee Schuyler (1811–1890) and Eliza Hamilton (1811–1863). His parents were cousins through their shared Schuyler ancestry as his maternal great-grandmother was his paternal grandfather's sister. After his mother died