This week in Cars & Concepts history
 | The first gasoline pump is built, by Sylvanus Bowser of Fort Wayne, Ind., and delivered to Jake Gumper, also of Fort Wayne, on Sept. 5, 1885. The automobile hadn't been invented yet; gasoline was a byproduct of refining kerosene for household stoves and lamps. Bowser's pump featured a wooden storage barrel, marble valves, a wooden plunger, a hand lever and an upright faucet lever. Bowser formed S.F. Bowser Co. and patented the pump in 1887. American motorists have been able to » More |
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