biography
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Burton, William Merriam
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| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1954)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Trained as a chemist, he went to work for Standard Oil and eventually became a refinery superintendent. He devised the first successful ‘cracking’ process for yielding gasoline from crude oil, an essential step in the development of the automobile industry. |
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