Kerosene patented
1854 · Event
Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents the process for making kerosene from coal; cheap lamp fuel that displaces whale oil and spurs the rise of the oil industry.
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- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
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- Wars of German Unification (1864)
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