WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
PUMPING GAS
Profile America — Saturday,
September 5th. A device that many of us line up to use every
few days or weeks was first unveiled on this date in 1885 — the gas
pump. Sylvanus Bowser of Fort Wayne,
Indiana made the pump for a customer to dispense a single
barrel of fuel for lamps and stoves. As one might expect, the
advent of automobiles spurred the development, popularity and
distribution of the gas pump. Eventually, the inventor's name
became a generic term for a fuel dispenser, and gas pumps in
New Zealand and Australia are still called a "bowser." Across
the U.S., there are more than 112,000 gas stations doing over a
half-trillion dollars worth of annual business. Each year, the
pumps at these stations dispense nearly 170 billion gallons of
gasoline and special fuels, including diesel. You can find more
facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at
www.census.gov.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 4410
First use, capacity and term "bowser":
http://sciencenetlinks.com/daily-content/9/5/
Gasoline stations/NAICS 447:
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2012_US_00A1&prodType=table
Gas station receipts/NAICS 447:
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ECN_2012_US_00A1&prodType=table
Gallons:
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2013/mf27.cfm
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