Ignacy Lukasiewicz

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (March 8, 1822 – January 7, 1882) is a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary.

He is a pioneer who in 1856 buids the world's first modern oil refinery.[

His achievements include the discovery of how to distill kerosene from seep oil, the invention of the modern kerosene lamp (1853), the introduction of the first modern street lamp in Europe (1853), and the construction of the world's first modern oil well (1854).

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