Sep 6, 2008 07:19
1885: Sylvanus F. Bowser delivers the first gasoline pump. It improves safety, but can't guarantee low prices.Fort Wayne, Indiana, barn. He sold and delivered the first one to Fort Wayne merchant Jake Gumper 123 years ago today.filling station," and Bowser started selling an improved model to the first automobile-repair garages in 1893. bowser soon became a generic term for a vertical gasoline pump. That usage has dropped away in the United States, but lingers in Australia, New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, Canada. A bowser is also a tank truck that delivers fuel to airplanes on the tarmac, and in Britain the term applies as well to self-propelled tanks carrying any fluid that is delivered directly to the end user -- for instance, water after a disaster. backscratcher and a sit-down enema. He also sold postcards of himself next to the "Stone of Scone," part of the coronation throne on which British monarchs sit while being crowned in Westminster Abbey.Source: Petroleum Collectibles Monthly, others
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