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    The History Of Oil
    The History Of Oil
    The History Of Oil
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    The History Of Oil

    By Matt Green

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    Did you ever wonder how the oil was discovered?

    In 1852, a Canadian inventor named Abraham Gesner discovered how to make kerosene from crude petroleum.
    In an age when candles and whale oil provided the only light after sun down, it was a dramatic discovery.
    Borrowing a page from alcohol distillers, Gesner used the primitive still type system to still and refine crude petroleum by heating it and separating its various elements.

    Grab your history book now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMatt Green
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781370926435
    The History Of Oil
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    Matt Green

    Matt Green is an international best-selling author who writes about celebrity figures and their real stories. Matt's goal is to make celebrity biographies more accessible and enjoyable by the readers. His books are easy-to-read, short to the point and with very interesting facts about how normal people rose to stardom. He lives with his wife Kate in Surbiton, London, United Kingdom.

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      The History Of Oil - Matt Green

      The History Of Oil – History Series

      Matt Green

      Published by Matt Green at Smashwords

      Copyright© 2016 Matt Green

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      This e-book cannot be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you are reading this e-book and you did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy.

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      In 1852, a Canadian inventor named Abraham Gesner discovered how to make kerosene from crude petroleum.

      In an age when candles and whale oil provided the only light after sun down, it was a dramatic discovery.

      Borrowing a page from alcohol distillers, Gesner used the primitive still type system to still and refine crude petroleum by heating it and separating its various elements.

      One of those elements was kerosene, which he found burned longer and cleaner than whale oil.

      The superiority of kerosene was not only in the fact that it was a better illuminant but it was ever so much cheaper.

      Whale oil was getting extremely costly.

      Town gas, for example, about 1860, you could light your house with town gas for about $10 a month. You could light your house with kerosene for $10 a year.

      Created over millions of years by heat and pressure, petroleum is formed when

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