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Physical Desc
127 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of oil flowing from a well in the wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania shook the modern world in 1859. Refined as kerosene for lamps, a lubricant for home and industrial needs, and ultimately as a fuel for transportation in the form of gasoline, oil literally changed the world and defined global economics and politics. Western Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage profiles the history of Pennsylvania oil from its discovery and development to its...
Author
Publisher
Jas. B. Rodgers
Pub. Date
1873
Physical Desc
607 p.
Language
English
Description
With authentic facts in regard to its development in Western Pennsylvania. The oil fields of Europe and America, gas wells, spiritual wells, oil well shafts, petroleum products, oil companies, pipe line statistics, early modes of transportation, flowing wells of 1861 to 1864, Pit Hole in 1865, the lubricating oil district, &c. Also, statistics of product, export, and consumption, with prices of oil from 1859 to 1872, &c. The Parkers' and Butler County...
Author
Publisher
Scott, Greenwood and Co
Pub. Date
1901
Physical Desc
634 p. : front., illus., plates, fold. maps, fold. tables, diagrs. (1 fold.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oil-well drilling, explosives and the use of the "torpedo," transport of petroleum by sea and by land, the storage of petroleum, technical data - tables, formula, problems, etc., etc.