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Francis P. Venable began teaching chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1880. He modified the Bunsen burner so the supply of gas could be gradually and accurately regulated, making it invaluable to the university and to chemistry in general. Venable's other contribution was his discovery of calcium carbide and acetylene gas, while working for the Willson Aluminum Co. of Spray, NC. The company's co-owner, Thomas Willson, took credit for the discovery by applying for a patent and then fled to Canada. Venable was president of UNC Chapel Hill from 1900 to 1914, and when he resigned, the trustees established the Francis P. Venable Chair of Chemistry, which Venable himself filled until retiring in 1930.
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Three inns in historic Jackson County date back to the 1880s. The Jarrett House in Dillsboro was built to accommodate the first railroad travelers. Visitors now come from afar just for the family-style food. In the same city, the Squire Watkins Inn is a replica of the house in which owner Flora Watkins had started a bed and breakfast. The third inn was originally the home of Wade Hampton, a confederate general and governor of South Carolina in the late 1800s, but is now High Hampton Inn and Country Club. Jackson County is only minutes away from the Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the county's Whiteside Mountain is said to have the largest cliffs in the East.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's plan to place a nuclear waste dump in western North Carolina was halted when Kitty Bonsike with the League of Conservation Voters told them of an earthquake in the Hot Springs and Spring Creek area of Madison County. U.S. Geological Survey officials looked in their records and found two earthquakes in western North Carolina in 1928. The quakes were seventeen days apart and both measured 7 on the MacCarley scale, 3.75 on the Richter scale. Scientists are measuring the temperature of nearby hot springs and mineral springs hoping to gain further evidence of geographical instability in the area.
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