Modern gasoline pumps began in the 1880s with a device for dispensing kerosene at an Indiana grocery store.   Presaging the first gas pump, S.F. (Sylvanus Freelove) Bowser sold his newly invented kerosene pump to the owner of a grocery store in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on September 5, 1885. Less than two decades later, the … Continue reading First Gas Pump and Service Station