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Ballistol - Quality & Versatility Guaranteed
Description
In 1874, Friedrich Wilhelm Klever, an attorney with interest in economy, founded the "Klever Company" in Cologne, Germany. Klever began producing oils and greases from coal - so he would not run out of raw materials he eventually bought a coal mine!
At the turn of the century, the German Army began looking for a versatile oil to be used by soldiers in combat - a versatile product that could be used to clean and protect metallic rifle parts, to protect leather gear and wooden gun stocks and even to disinfect minor cuts and scratches.
Freidrich's son, Dr. Helmut Klever, had become a professor of chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and set out to develop an oil which would answer the Army's challenges. In 1904, he succeeded in creating a new oil with many amazing capabilities - he called the substance Ballistol, a combination of the word "ballistic" and the Latin word for oil, "oleum". The Army tested and approved this new "ballistic oil" and began using it in 1905.
