"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
news:pb6q05hdthh00jli859ar38b45uuhc15i1@4ax.com:
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> Where did the idea for Vaseline Petroleum Jelly come from?
>
> Robert Augustus Cheesebrough.
>
> In 1859 when oil was first found in Pennsylvania, Cheesebrough was a
> 22 year old chemist in Brooklyn who had become an expert at extracting
> kerosene from cannel oil.
>
> He realized that petroleum products would be the fuel source of the
> future so he headed to Pennsylvania to get his piece of the action.
>
> He noticed that a colorless film called "rod wax" collected around the
> pump rods on the oil wells, gumming up the works until it was removed.
> He also observed oil workers who would slap the stuff on a cut,
> instead of a bandage. Not only did it stay on the skin and stop the
> bleeding, but it seemed to help cure the wound.
>
> Cheesebrough returned to Brooklyn with some rod-wax and spent months
> creating a clean form of rod-wax which he called "petroleum jelly". He
> began making so much of this stuff that every beaker in his laboratory
> was full, so he threw out his wife's flowers and filled the vases with
> his creation.
>
> After awhile, he added the popular medical term "line" to the word
> "vase" and he called the product "Vaseline Petroleum Jelly."
>
And just think wht it is used for now LOL
Mercury.
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