Prest-O-Lite

This is one of the best overviews of Carl Fisher and James Allison’s Prest-O-Lite Corporation. The business marketed compressed gas canisters initially used to fuel the first viable automobile headlights. Fisher and Allison founded the company with Percy Avery in 1904 and eventually sold the company in for millions of dollars. This was the first really big money for Fisher and Allison, who were already successful with businesses on a smaller scale.