# The evolution of the oil industry

Author: Ross, Victor, 1878-1934; Manning, Van. H. (Vannoy Hartrog), 1861-1932 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77066

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+evolution+of+the+oil+industry+Ross&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 literature had its inspiration. It was applied to the service of religion, and was a subject of superstition in times which are enshrouded in legend. In the authorized Bible and in the Apocrypha there are more than two hundred allusions to it. The legend of Noah speaks of his having used pitch to tighten the seams of his ark, which certainly indicates a familiarity with the uses of fluid bitumen available in the East. I...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-evolution-of-the-oil-industry-77066/chapters/3/index.md)