Jabir ibn Hayyan of Tus is often regarded as the earliest figure associated with the discovery of sulfuric acid, as he described the distillation of saltpeter together with green vitriol.
Years later, with the increasing demand for sulfuric acid, more advanced methods for its industrial production were introduced, offering significantly higher efficiency.
The importance of sulfuric acid is such that there are very few human‑made products in whose production sulfuric acid has not played a direct or indirect role.