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Show uu THE FIRST GASOLINE ENGINE. The first attempt to apply gasoline I as a motive power was made by a: Frenchman, Pn rre foseph Ravel, who j patented forty-five years ar;o "'a st'-nrn l generator heated bj mineral oils to be applied to steam locomotion on j ordinary roads." Ravel's ent. In as fitted to a small carriage and tfe- j veloped three horsepower. The Fran-.l co-German war put an end to Ravel's j : experiments for a time, but ears lat- j j er he built a motor car in Aiiir-h pe- I J froleum was used for the direct ?en- f ! eration of motive power , In 187C Lentz invented a burned by! ' which a mixture of gasoline and other I i naphthas, called raacsout. was usd as k fuel on steamships. About the same f time gasoline was used as an ilium- I I inant in street lamps and later al I new use was found for it In the manu- 1 facture of varnish and oilcloth Gas- 1 ; oline. amounting to 8 per cent of the ! 1 distilled product of 'he crude petrol- I eum, continued to be a drug on the I market uniil the invention of the gas- B oline motor and its application to the automobile, boats, aeroplanes and hundreds of industrial uses. Several inventors helped to inaug- ? urate the " age of gasoline," but the 1 chief of them was George B Selden I of Rochester, N Y. the Vather of the II automobile. Philadelphia Public Ied- ger. |