Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully drill for oil.
Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully...
The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville. Drilled by EdwinDrake in 1859, along the banks of Oil Creek...
oil industry in 1859 by Colonel EdwinDrake. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts. The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical...
controversial point might be that Williams found oil above bedrock while EdwinDrake's well located oil within a bedrock reservoir. The discovery at Oil Springs...
well was drilled in 1859 by EdwinDrake at what is now called the Drake Well in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania. Drake's well is considered the first...
America started in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there in 1859. Titusville and other towns on the shores...
Canada. In the United States, the petroleum industry began in 1859 when EdwinDrake found oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The industry grew slowly in...
of wildcat banks in the Midwest were known as "wild-catters" before EdwinDrake's discovery of oil in Pennsylvania. Hydrocarbon exploration William M...
ancient Chinese drilling technique was used by American businessman EdwinDrake to drill Pennsylvania's first oil well in 1859 using small steam engines...
fields became a major supplier of oil, and a center of innovation after EdwinDrake had struck oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Break-bulk boats and barges...
Pennsylvania. In 1955, the highway was designated as the Colonel Drake Highway in honor of EdwinDrake. PA 36 begins in the Bedford County hamlet of Yellow Creek...
Dalton Gang, who are subsequently replaced by their fictional cousins EdwinDrake James B. Eads Gustave Eiffel Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp Ulysses S...
Drake Well Museum, the site of the first successful commercial oil well in the United States, that was drilled under the direction of Colonel Edwin Drake...
practical raw materials for lighting fuel. The second was in 1859, when EdwinDrake invented the first modern drilling process for deep oil wells. John Davison...
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition...
benchmark futures contract for wholesale gasoline in the United States. EdwinDrake was the first to discover RBOB gasoline but discarded it as a byproduct...
(2018). EdwinDrake's 1859 well near Titusville, Pennsylvania, discussed more fully below, is popularly considered the first modern well. Drake's well is...
the NRHP in Worcester County Drake House (Michigan), a Michigan State Historic Site in Breckenridge, Michigan Edwin S. Drake Farmhouse, Northfield, Minnesota...
Canada. In the United States, the petroleum industry began in 1859 when EdwinDrake found oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The industry grew slowly in...
Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil was first extracted from the Drake Well, which was drilled by EdwinDrake in "the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern...
Pennsylvania, where an oil boom had started in August 1859, following EdwinDrake's discovery of oil there, initially calling their venture Dramatic Oil...
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