Friday, 27 March 2020

Good News in History, March 27

165 years ago today, Canadian inventor Abraham Gesner received U.S. patents for his innovation called kerosene, a cleaner lamp fuel for indoor and street lighting. His invention of the process to refine a liquid fuel from coal, bitumen and oil shale mostly eliminated the use of whale oil from sperm whales. Gesner created the Kerosene Gaslight Company […]

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