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Position:Home>History> When in history did people first want to use oil from the earth to power cars anQuestion: When in history did people first want to use oil from the earth to power cars and other machines!? when did people first learn that they could use this stuff to power vehicles!?
And presently in history, has it changed much from it's earlier forms!? How is fuel from the earth processed to make it into what we put into our automobile !? Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Natural oils from olives, fish, goose livers, and such have been used since the Greeks to lubricate devices!. That's not new!. Using petroleum dates back to Pennsylvania in the late 1800s, although oil or grease was probably used to lubricate the parts of a steam locomotive!. In fact, grease was DEFINITELY used to lubricate the axles on wagons (on an old Conestoga, you can see the grease pot dangling from the rear axle in some photos)!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Early 20th century; earlier cars used electricity or steam power!. First major oil find was in Penn!. Took much longer to discover use of natural gas, which was once burned off as a waste product at oil wells!.Www@QuestionHome@Com hard to believe it all started in pennsylvania!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |