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In 1885, Sylvanus Freelove Bowser invented and sold his kerosene pump to a grocery store in Fort Wayne Indiana. 18 years later <a href="https://aoghs.org/transportation/first-gas-pump-and-service-stations/" target="_blank">Gulf Oil opened the ‘Good Gulf Gasoline’ station in St. Louis</a>. And 2 years later the first purposely built drive-in gasoline service station was opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.