The situation changed when a Jew came to Łukasiewicz's pharmacy and offered to sell him a bottle of oil coming from the area of Borysław, where peasants collected it from hollows and ponds.
The peasants used it to treat fasciolosis (a parasitic disease caused by the liver fluke - Fasciola ...
After an unsuccessful first attempt to use kerosene in a structurally unsuitable oil lamp, Łukasiewicz and the tinsmith Bratkowski constructed a prototype kerosene lamp.
This lamp was massive, consisting of a cylindrical tin tank for kerosene. It served as a protection ...
However, Łukasiewicz did not stop his distillation attempts and finally found the proper fraction, collected at the temperature of 250-350 °C (482 - 662 °F), devoid of light petrols and heavy hydrocarbons.
The resulting kerosene burned very well, so Łukasiewicz decided to use it for lighting rooms.