DRAKE, EDWIN LAURENTINE

1819–80, American oil well driller, b. Greene co., N.Y. In 1858 he was employed to conduct drilling operations and on Aug. 27, 1859, he struck oil near Titusville, Pa., at a depth of 69 ft (21.1 m). Drake's was the first producing oil well in the United States.

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Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming
Book by Gale E. Christianson; Walker, 1999
Subjects: Global Warming--History
...226 -27 temperature and, 247 vector-borne, 240 -41 Dotto, Lydia, 170 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 149 Drake, Edwin Laurentine, 93 -96, 137 Drought, xv, 129 -30, 133 , 196 -97, 222 , 228 , 232 -33, 249 , 274 -75 Dust/dust...
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Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
Book by Lance Day, Ian Mcneil; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Inventions--History--Dictionaries, Inventors--Biography--Dictionaries, Technology--History--Dictionaries
...Donald Wills 218 Dow, Herbert Henry 218-19 Dow, Samuel G. 433 Downing, Samuel 219 , 460 Dowsing, H. 56 Drake, Edwin Laurentine 219-20 , 430 , 616 Draper, Samuel 206 Driessen, Professor 678 Driffield, Vero Charles 364 , 477 Drinker...
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Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History
Book by E. L. Jones; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: Economic Development--History, Economic History
...disasters, see Black Death; cattle plague; famine control; London; quarantine; under- Europe; Japan Drake, Colonel Edwin Laurentine 74 Drucker, Peter 180 Dutch learning, see under Japan
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A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850s in America
Book by Robert L. Gale; Greenwood Press, 1993
Subjects: United States--History--1849-1877--Encyclopedias
...Smith, Seba. Drake, Edwin 1819-1880 . Full name: Edwin Laurentine Drake. Oil pioneer...as "Colonel" Drake--to Oil Creek...prospect for oil there. Drakes favorable report resulted...Company, of which Drake was named president...
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Framework for Industrialization in Africa
Book by Thomas A. Taku; Praeger, 1999
Subjects: Africa--Economic Policy, Industrial Policy--Africa, Industrialization--Africa
...railroad conductor, named Edwin Laurentine Drake, was hired and sent...the summer of 1859, Drake set up his derrick...locals christened it "Drakes folly." Drakes drilling...frequent cave-ins, Drake had his crew drive in...of pioneer drilling, Drakes folly paid off. His...


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The Drilling Fields
Magazine article by Norman Miller; Geographical, Vol. 71, November 1999
Subjects: Drilling and boring--History, Petroleum industry--History, Petroleum--Origin
...conclude by tipping our hats to Edwin Laurentine Drake. A humble railway conductor in 1850s New York State, Drake knew that there had been cases...that could be jumped up and down, Drake headed for Titusville, home of...


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Drake, Edwin Laurentine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DRAKE, EDWIN LAURENTINE 1819 80, American oil well driller, b. Greene co., N.Y. In...struck oil near Titusville, Pa., at a depth of 69 ft (21.1 m). Drakes was the first producing oil well in the United States...


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