Show I 1 oil burning development I 1 oil has been used tor for fuel and for heating from a very early period but the mechanical development of the oil burner dates from the middle of the nineteenth century its widespread use in the united states from about i the year 1022 public interest was attracted I 1 to the possibility of oil burning with a very considerable increase in the oil production of california and about 1000 1900 small burners were soon produced and larger ones tor for power and heat beat the first attempts at commercial oil binning were crude TI they y were followed by natural draught por Izing burners and a later development was the mechanical draught automatic burner the foundation of the modern domestic oil heating beating industry |