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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links on our site, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. One day in 1859, a chemist named Robert Chesebrough visited Titusville, Pa. He noticed that oilfield workers were using something they called “rod wax” to dress minor skin wounds. Rod wax was an oil-drilling byproduct.