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The author traces petroleum from ancient mentions and natural seeps through nineteenth-century experiments and the first drilled commercial wells, presenting anecdotal episodes, technical innovations, and the boom-and-bust life of oil towns. Drawing on personal observation and portraits, the work moves regionally through early American surface springs and emerging drilling districts, describes laboratory and field advances that improved extraction and refining, and recounts legal, financial, and human consequences of rapid industry growth. Emphasis is placed on vivid incidents and biographical sketches rather than exhaustive scientific or economic analysis.

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Title: Sketches in Crude-oil

Author: John J. McLaurin

Release date: December 6, 2016 [eBook #53672]
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Language: English

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Sketches in
rude-oil

SOME ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE PETROLEUM
DEVELOPMENT IN ALL PARTS OF
THE GLOBE
WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
By JOHN J. McLAURIN,
Author of “A Brief History of Petroleum,” “The Story of
Johnstown,” Etc.
“Write the vision * * * that he may run that readeth it.”—Habakkuk 11:2
“I heard a song, a mighty song.”—Ibsen
“Was it all a dream, some jugglery that daylight might expose?”—N. A. Lindsey
“I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver.”—Shakespeare
SECOND EDITION—REVISED AND ENLARGED
HARRISBURG, PA.
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1898
Copyrighted, 1896
Copyrighted, 1898
By JOHN J. McLAURIN

“He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.”—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

“What is writ is written, would it were better.”—SHAKESPEARE.