Well before 1880, Amanda Theodosia Jones, had already established herself as an author and an inventor. Her early work in attempting to devise a method of preserving food resulted in her being awarded two patents.
Having failed to establish a successful canning company, Jones set her sights upon perfecting a method of heating furnaces. It was in the oil fields of northern Pennsylvania that Jones completed her trial and error efforts and came away with a patent for the oil burner in 1880.
