Titusville, Pennsylvania - The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industr

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Titusville, Pennsylvania - The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industry. A nineteenth-century spring pole drilling rig is on display; it was powered by kicking of workers' legs.

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Size: 6720px × 4480px
Location: Titusville, Pennsylvania, United States
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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