From a pharmacist to an oilman - these few words summarize the career of Ignacy Łukasiewicz- an outstanding Pole. While working by day in Lvov pharmacy "At Gold Star" (Pod Złotą Gwiazdą), he was spending evenings conducting experiments with the substance called rock oil. In 1854, Łukasiewicz opened the world's first oil mine in Bóbrka, near Krosno. Although not all historians agree on this matter, it is assumed that the "distillery" founded by Łukasiewicz in Ulaszowice near Jasło, in 1856, was also the world's first oil refinery. However, there is no doubt about the fact that Łukasiewicz was the inventor of the first oil lamp (1853) and the founder of the crude oil mine in Bóbrka in Galicia, in 1854.