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    Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnatsɨ wukaˈɕɛvitʂ] ; 8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman...
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  • Aleksander Ignacy Lubomirski (1802–1893), Polish noble, financier and philanthropist Jerzy Ignacy Lubomirski (1687–1753), Polish nobleman Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882)...
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    pioneered by Walery Jaworski, he diagnosed neoplastic pylorostenosis) Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882), pharmacist, engineer, inventor, petroleum industry pioneer...
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  • Józefat Ignacy Łukaszewicz (Lithuanian: Juozapas Ignotas Lukaševičius; 6 November 1789 – 3 January 1850) was a Polish-Lithuanian painter. He was born in...
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  • Lukashevich. Antoni Łukasiewicz (born 1983), Polish footballer Christophe Lukasiewicz (1933–1999), Polish-French architect Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822–1882), Polish...
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    Kazimierz Kordylewski: astronomer, discoverer of the Kordylewski clouds. Ignacy Łukasiewicz: invented kerosene lamp, designed and built both world's first oil...
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    to census data included in the Dictionary of Geography. In 1858, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, a world-renowned inventor, moved to Jasło. Due to his pioneering...
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    engineer Vasily Semyonov applying the ideas of Nikolay Voskoboynikov. Ignacy Łukasiewicz, a Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer drilled one of...
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  • of the crude oil, along with a chemist from eastern Pennsylvania. Ignacy Łukasiewicz, a Polish pharmacist residing in Lviv, and his Hungarian partner Jan...
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  • the kerosene lamp were invented by Polish inventor and pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz, in Lviv. It was a significant improvement over lamps designed to...
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  • site of the very first oil well (1854). Polish inventor Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz designed the machines. Oil Springs, Ontario, the world's first commercial...
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    process to produce kerosene from coal. Shortly thereafter, in 1854, Ignacy Łukasiewicz began producing kerosene from hand-dug oil wells near the town of...
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    paraffin lamp were later constructed by Polish inventor and pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz, in Lviv in 1853. It was a significant improvement over lamps designed...
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    Tarnobrzeg. There are several monuments and memorials to inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz, pioneer of the global oil industry, in places where he studied and...
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    since 1854. One of the rock oil mine owners was Polish pharmacist, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, who was the first to produce distilled kerosene from oil in 1852/1853...
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  • Austrian Chancellor) and his niece, Pauline von Metternich (1856). Ignacy Łukasiewicz and his niece, Honorata Stacherska (1857). Porfirio Díaz, 33rd President...
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    American Revolutionary War Ignacy Łukasiewicz (IPA: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ wukaˈɕɛvʲit͡ʂ]), the inventor of the modern paraffin lamp Jan Łukasiewicz (IPA: [ˈjan wukaˈɕɛvʲit͡ʂ])...
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  • located in the village of Bóbrka, Poland. It was dug in 1854 by hand by Ignacy Łukasiewicz. Ignacy Łukasiewicz: the first kerosene lamp in the world v t e...
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    Arc-lighting is used as experimental public lighting in Paris. 1853 Ignacy Łukasiewicz invents the modern kerosene lamp. 1856 glassblower Heinrich Geissler...
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    increase of importance of the town. The first oil company started by Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Tytus Trzecielski and Karol Klobassa in 1856 and the refinery they...
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    statistics. Kerosene streetlamps were invented by Polish pharmacist Ignacy Łukasiewicz in the city of Lviv, Ukraine, in 1853. His kerosene lamps were later...
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  • brought us many famous people, such as: Ignacy Łukasiewicz... Puda-Blokesz, Magdalena (20 July 2011). "Ignacy Łukasiewicz" (PDF). chemia.zamkor.pl (in Polish)...
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    Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski discovers carbon dioxide clathrate (1882). Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer who in 1856 built...
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  • – Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (d. 1887) 1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882)...
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    Bruno Kreisky, Richard Kuhn, Hermann F. Kvergić, Paul Lazarsfeld, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Gustav Mahler, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lise Meitner, Gregor Mendel...
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    coal by Nova Scotian Abraham Pineo Gesner in 1846. It was only after Ignacy Łukasiewicz had improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene...
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    (29 mi) south-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. Polish inventor Ignacy Łukasiewicz is buried at the local cemetery. "Central Statistical Office (GUS)...
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  • chemist who became the first scientist to liquefy oxygen and nitrogen Ignacy Łukasiewicz, pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist who...
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    kerosene could be more easily produced, solved the supply problem. Ignacy Łukasiewicz improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from...
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    process to produce kerosene from coal. Shortly thereafter, in 1854, Ignacy Lukasiewicz began producing kerosene from hand-dug oil wells near the town of...
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