By: Ardis E. Parshall - August 07, 2012 On January 30, 1854, 28-year-old Henry Martin, already a 14-year employee of the firm Visger and Miller Brothers (dye manufacturers in Bristol, England), went to a supplier’s warehouse and purchased a barrel of oil for use on the company’s equipment. When he returned to the factory, something peculiar about the way he darted into the engine room (the record doesn’t say what that peculi...
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