Category: History - American
While the petroleum industry is in the fullest sense modern, it has been known to, and casually utilized by mankind for centuries. It is named in the earliest annals of the race; and allusions to it are abundant in the literature of the East, from which much of our Western lit...
While the petroleum industry is in the fullest sense modern, it has been known to, and casually utilized by mankind for centuries. It is named in the earliest annals of the race...
2. CHAPTER IIPetroleum, or to use its comprehensive colloquial synonym, “oil,” has come to play such a widespread part in every-day life that most people, the younger generation especially,...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe words of Washington show that long before the actual birth of the petroleum industry in the United States, discerning minds were at work on the best means of turning the bit...
4. CHAPTER IVOn October 4, 1901, a magnificent monument was unveiled at Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Pa., to the memory of Edwin Laurencine Drake at the expense of the late Henry H. Rogers...
5. CHAPTER VThe standardization of the petroleum industry which began in America during the later sixties naturally excited emulation. Just previous to the Pennsylvania discoveries of 1859...
6. CHAPTER VIWhen Edwin Laurencine Drake went to Titusville, in 1859 the first question he asked of the natives was the location of “the oil spring” known to the Indians and the farmers who...
7. CHAPTER VIIMethods of well drilling differ in various regions in accordance with the special problems to be encountered and perhaps no other industry furnishes more examples of mechanical...
8. CHAPTER VIIIWhen a new lease or area proves itself to be commercially productive, marketing the product becomes the next consideration. In the earliest stages of recovery and storage of pet...
9. CHAPTER IXAs has already been intimated, the Pennsylvania oil discoveries of fifty years ago would have been relatively valueless if methods of refining had not advanced sufficiently to d...
10. CHAPTER XPetroleum products not only enter as an essential into great industries; but their manufacture and distribution have given birth to many allied industries directly connected wit...
11. CHAPTER XIThe intimate connection between petroleum and maritime commerce became assured from the day it was recognized that the United States had resources destined to make her the chief...
12. CHAPTER XIINo survey of the place that petroleum holds in the social and industrial organization of the world would be complete without some reference of the role it played in the late war...
13. CHAPTER XIIIA perusal of the foregoing chapters should correct any vague impression in the mind of the reader that the oil business is a lucky adventurer’s game like placer-mining, where a...
14. CHAPTER XIVIn these chapters an effort has been made to place before the reader the story of the development of petroleum from a negligible and unappreciated product to its present basic a...