Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully...
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Pennsylvania oil rush (section Drake strikes oil)
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...
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architectural plan to promote tourism in upper Assam. Barely seven years after Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 at Titusville, Pennsylvania...
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Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent Col. Edwin L. Drake to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville...
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Paul Adams Louis King Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake Colonel Edwin L. Drake Arthur Pierson Casanova's Big Night Casanova Norman Z. McLeod...
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oil industry in 1859 by Colonel Edwin Drake. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts. The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical...
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Revolution likely would have been delayed or not possible. In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first oil well in the U.S. near Titusville. Similar rock...
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became a tourist attraction. On August 27, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially...
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1853. Hollis, in turn, sold all his land on April 25 to Henry Bastian. Edwin L. Drake drilled the first commercially successful oil well in nearby Titusville...
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Philadelphia and Erie Railroad entered the town in 1858 shortly before Edwin L. Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville. The impact on the young...
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born in Acra, NY. Newspaper publisher, politician, and party boss Edwin L. Drake, (1819-1880), invented method to drill oil from the ground, born in...
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(2009). "Ports database". convoyweb.org.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Sawyer, L.A.; Mitchell, W.H. (1985). The Liberty Ships: The History of the 'Emergency'...
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mid-1850s. George Bissell, a Yale University chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling...
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mid-1850s. George Bissell, a Yale University chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling...
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positive results. More than a decade later, on August 27, 1859, "Colonel" Edwin L. Drake struck oil on American soil for the first time. A small petrochemical...
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discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on August 27, 1859 by Edwin L. Drake was the beginning of the end of commercial whaling in the United States...
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was discovered in western Pennsylvania. In 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig at Titusville, Pennsylvania...
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discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on August 27, 1859, by Edwin L. Drake was the beginning of the end of commercial whaling in the United States...
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of Music, Philadelphia 1859 — First successful oil well, Titusville (Edwin L. Drake) 1861 — First pretzel factory, Julius Sturgis, Lititz 1863 — First Civil...
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Harris George Vickers John W Powell Contract date 24 December 1942 Edwin L. Drake Thomas U. Walter Thorstein Veblen John T Holt Arunah S. Abell Joshua...
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Ships Association". Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Sawyer, L. A.; Mitchell, W. H. (1985). The Liberty Ships (second ed.). London: LLoyd's...
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Drake University Law School is the law school of Drake University, located in Des Moines, Iowa. Over 330 full-time students attend the institution. Dean...
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Pennsylvania Route 36 (redirect from Colonel Drake Highway)
December 21, 1955, the route was designated as the "Col. Drake Highway" in honor of Edwin L. Drake, the first to drill for oil in the United States. By 1980...
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1964 1-13 "The Colonel from Connecticut" 1859 Edwin L. Drake#Drilling for oil Colonel Edwin L. Drake Benjamin Silliman Jr. Richard Kiley Whit Bissell...
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15 Jan. Sloop HMS Dianella (K07) Royal Navy Escort 12 Jan - 27 Jan Edwin L Drake (1943) United States 7,176 Via Akureyri 18-21 Jan Empire Ploughman...
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62653; -79.65322 (Early Refinery) City Business & Industry, Oil & Gas Edwin L. Drake November 18, 1946 Woodlawn Cemetery, Spring Street (PA 8), Titusville...
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Congress: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Edwin L. Drake (1879). Chronological Summary of Battles and Engagements of the Western...
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tools, the first drilling for oil in Dithmarschen, three years before Edwin L. Drake, tapped the first oil well in Pennsylvania. It was the first ever drilling...
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J. L. Thompson". Sunderland Maritime Heritage. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2011. Mitchell, W. H.; Sawyer, L. A....
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by the very large (30-foot, 9.1 m diameter) L-Band radar system employed. The photo to the right shows the L-Band radar dish straddled by the twin C-Band...
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