Quito, Ecuador's capital city, makes for a nice change with a more relaxed feel and safer atmosphere than other major cities. It is the sort of place you can find yourself staying longer than planned.
These 10 animal facts will amaze you. A type of convection heater, an oil heater is an alternative way to keep small areas of a home or building warm. Electricity powers a built-in heating element, which in turn heats the oil kept inside hollow columns of the device.
Gas oil (an early form of gasoline) was the flammable waste product from kerosene refining, made from the lightest and most volatile fractions (tops) of crude oil. In 1875 Thaddeus S. C. Lowe invented the carburetted water gas process.