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The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859-1899

by Arnold R. Daum, Harold F. Williamson. 866 pgs.

Contributors:

   Arnold R. Daum, Harold F. Williamson

Publisher:

   Northwestern University Press

Place of Publication:

  Evanston, IL  

Publication Year:

  1959

Subjects:

Petroleum Industry And Trade--United States

	Contents
	ONE Prologue
1	Petroleum through the ages: a 5,000-year preview	3
	TWO The Illumination Revolution of the 1850's
2	Illumination in America	27
3	The American coal-oil industry	43
	THREE The birth of the modern industry 1859-1861
4	The first commercial oil well	63
5	Pioneer developments	82
	FOUR The formative years 1862-1873
6	Output of crude and the spread of production	117
7	Changing techniques of production	136
8	The transport of crude	164
9	Refining technology	202
10	Petroleum by-products	232
11	Postwar refining and refining organization	252
12	Refining capacity, output, location, and marketing of crude	287
13	Foreign and domestic markets and marketing channels	309
	FIVE Reaction to instability
14	Refiners, railroads, and Rockefeller	343
	SIX Expansion, adjustment, and integration 1874-1884
15	Production and marketing of crude	371
16	Pipelines, railroads, and refineries	396
17	Tidewater, Standard, and long-distance pipelines	430
18	The growth and reorganization of refining capacity	463
19	Foreign markets and marketing channels	488
20	Domestic markets and marketing channels	520
	SEVEN Integration and reaction to foreign competition 1884-1899
21	The Appalachian fields and the rise of the Pure Oil Company	555
22	Standard and the Ohio-Indiana fields	589
23	Refining and refining capacity	614
24	Foreign marketing and the rise of competition	630
25	Domestic markets and marketing channels	677
26	The public and the trusts	702
	EIGHT Epilogue
	27 Summary and conclusion	725
	Acknowledgments	733
	Appendixes
	A Refining operations: 1860-1873	737
	B Methods of estimating refining operations: 1874-1899	739
	C U. S. exports of illuminating oil: 1864-1873	740
	D U. S. exports of petroleum and petroleum products: 1874-1899	741
	E The legal framework of crude-oil production	758
	F Drilling costs	767
	Endnotes	773
	Index	835

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