When Was Oil First Used As Fuel?

Crude oil is petroleum. The rock in which petroleum is found lies deep underground. The oil is reached by drilling below the earth’s surface.
The real history of oil began in the 19th century. The first man who
thought of drilling of oil was a New York lawyer named George Bissell.
He sent a sample of Pennsylvania crude oil to a scientist at Yale University
, Benjamin Silliman. Silliman reported that petroleum yielded many useful
products: lamp oil, lubricating oil, illuminating gas, paraffin wax for candles
others. Sillimans report convinced businessmen that there was money to
be made in oil.
Bissell hired a man named Edwin Drake to drill for oil near Titusville,
Pennsylvania. On August 27, 1859, they struck oil. The news spread quickly.
Men rushed to buy or lease land where oil might be found, and the oil rush
was on. Oil fever spread to other part of the United State, to Canada, and to
Europe. New uses for petroleum products were found, including its use as
fuel, and the demand for oil increased. Today, the search for new oil fields is
still going on all over the world.