curprev21:4621:46, 7 May 2019 Bodragontalkcontribs m28,710 bytes0 →History: Date correction. The citation states: In 1694, British Crown Patent No. 330 was granted to three subjects who had found“a way to extract and make great quantities of pitch, tarr, and oyle out of a sort of stone.” Around the same time enough oil was produced by the distillation of oil shale to light the streets of Modena in Italyundo