September 5: Sylvanus Bowser builds the first gasoline pump on this date in 1885

The idea came to him, Sylvanus Bowser would later relate, on a cold day in 1885 when he was trying to lift water from his well in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the vapor coming up the wellhead froze to the rope. Several months later, on Sept. 5 Bowser would sell his first hand-powered fuel pump [...]

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