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Show GASOLINE'S EARLY USE I he first attempt to apply gasoline gaso-line as a motive power was made by a Frenchman, Pierre Joseph Ravel Who patented forty-five years ago' today a steam generator healed by mineral oils, to be applied to steam locomotion on ordinary roads." Ravel's Ra-vel's engine was fitted to a small cm rrlage, nd developen 3 horse-power The PniCO-GermaO war put an end to Ravel experiments for a time, but years later he built a motor mo-tor car in which petroleum was used lor the din i t generation of motive power. In 1876 Lent, invented a burner by which a mixture of gasoline gaso-line and other naphthas, called mas-soul, mas-soul, was used as fuel on steamships About the same time gasoline was used as an illumlnant in street lamps, and later a new use was found for It In the manufacture of varulsb and oilcloth. Gasoline, amounting to i S per cent of the distilled product (if the crude petroleum, continued to te a drug on the market until the Invention of the gasoline motor and Its application to the automobile, boats aeroplanes and hundreds of Industrial uses. Several Inventors helped to inaugurate the "age of gasoline," gas-oline," but the chief of them was Georco B. Selden of Rochester, N Y.. the father of the autoinobiJc. Milwaukee Sentinel. |