In 1885 Sylvanus Bowser invented a pump that could handle oil products. First products were wooden tanks to dispense kerosene, for lighting, through the pump. Soon the automobile industry created a new market. The gas pump is still called a bowser in Australia.
Sylvanus Bowser (died 1938) is widely credited with inventing the automobile fuel pump.
Sylvanus F. Bowser was born August 8, 1854 near Fort Wayne, Indiana. Perry township, Allen county, on a farm
Sylvanus Olympio was born in 1902.
Sylvanus Wear was born in 1858.
Sylvanus Wear died in 1920.
Sylvanus Wood was born in 1604.
Sylvanus Olympio died in 1963.
Sylvanus Wood died in 1675-11.
Sylvanus Morley was born on June 7, 1883.
Sylvanus Dung Dung was born in 1949.
Sylvanus Thayer was born on 1785-06-09.
Sylvanus Thayer died on 1872-09-07.