supposed research, huh?
Type "synthetic oil history" into google, as in
www.google.com
The first hit is the link I posted. It's an AMSOIL dealer site.
And the IMPORTANT PARTS that Pablo left out are:
One bi-product of this process has been the development of synthetic motor oil.
It is believed that the first synthesized hydrocarbons were created by Friedel & Crafts in 1877 using Aluminum TriChrloride as the catalyst. Yet it wasn't until
1929 that the commercial development of synthesized hydrocarbons was undertaken by Standard Oil of Indiana. Not surprisingly there was a lack of demand for the new product and this first marketplace introduction of synthetic lubricants was commercially unsuccessful. (There is probably no relationship between this event and collapse of stock market later that year.)
So.
Synthetics frist made in 1877. Friedel does sound like a German name.
Rockefeller beat Amsoil to the market by about 40 years.
And synthetics might be responsible for the Great Depression.
I'm not trying to be a wiseacre, I just come across that way.
Pablo, which Cal Poly did you goto?