This Week in Petroleum History: January 29 – February 4
January 29, 1850 – Kerosene Inventor patents Gasification Process –
Canadian geologist Abraham Gessner received a U.S. patent for a gas manufacturing process, “to enable others skilled in the art…for obtaining of illuminating gas from compact and fluid bitumen (crude oil), asphaltum, chapapote, or mineral pitch as found in mines, quarries and springs in the earth.” (more…)
