An old engraving of an early oilfield in the USA in the 1860s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This engraving illustrates a typical ‘Oil Creek’ scene, with wooden derricks, a timber-lined collecting pond and barrels to transport the raw material by boat. On August 27 1859 George Bissell and Edwin L Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site at Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA.
An old engraving of an early oilfield in the USA in the 1860s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This engraving illustrates a typical ‘Oil Creek’ scene, with wooden derricks, a timber-lined collecting pond and barrels to transport the raw material by boat. On August 27 1859 George Bissell and Edwin L Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site at Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA. A tested a sample of the oil proved that it could be distilled into useful products such as kerosene for lamps.
Size: 3780px × 3691px
Location: Oil Creek, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA
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License: Licensed
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