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Petroleum

The invention of both the production and the refining of petroleum began in Scotland in 1848. Chemis James Young was the first to set up a business refining oil. This oil became a secondary energy source throughout the nineteenth century until it was widely used. media type="custom" key="25120074"

The first type of oil used was called paraffin oil, for it resembled paraffin wax. However, paraffin for both fuel and solid paraffin were not used or sold until 1856.

The first modern well was Edwin Drake’s well in Pennsylvania in 1859. This well set off a boom of oil production in the united states, mainly used as kerosene in lamps. Kerosene was much cheaper and more effective than other oils of the time.





Gasoline, a byproduct of kerosene production, was unwanted until mass automobile production. There was a shortage of gasoline after World War I until new processes were invented to make gasoline.

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