Sylvanus Bowser (died 1938) is widely credited with inventing the automobile fuel pump.
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 F. Bowser was born August 8, 1854 near Fort Wayne, Indiana. Perry township, Allen county, on a farm
Sylvanus Wear was born in 1858.
Sylvanus Wear died in 1920.
Sylvanus Wood was born in 1604.
Sylvanus Olympio died in 1963.
Sylvanus Olympio was born in 1902.
Sylvanus Wood died in 1675-11.
Sylvanus Morley was born on June 7, 1883.
Edwin Sylvanus Osborne was born in 1839.
Edwin Sylvanus Osborne died in 1900.
Sylvanus Thayer Award was created in 1958.