Success At Oil Creek
Success At Oil Creek
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Upon reaching 16 feet into the earth they decided to drive an iron pipe through quicksand and clay until they hit rock. Using 10-foot-long sections of cast-iron pipe brought from Erie, Drake's men employed a white-oak battering ram, lifted by an old-fashioned windlass, to drive the pipe 32 feet into bedrock. Around the middle of August, they began drilling with steam power and pushed the pipe down about three feet a day.
k Wax figure of "Uncle Billy" Smith in the Drake Well Museum at TitusviUe....
But people around TitusviUe did not pay much attention to Drake's drilling, and most were prone to mock his efforts. Dr. Giddens pointed out in The Early Petroleum Industry: "Almost everyone regarded drilling for oil as visionary and sure to prove abortive; there was a complete lack of confidence in the idea, and at times his activities were the subject of ridicule.
"Even Dr. Brewer, a stockholder in the company which leased the land, seemed to regard the whole affair as a joke. To the young men in TitusviUe, he gave away cigars, laughingly saying 'Have some on me!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Upon reaching 16 feet into the earth they decided to drive an iron pipe through quicksand and clay until they hit rock. Using 10-foot-long sections of cast-iron pipe brought from Erie, Drake's men employed a white-oak battering ram, lifted by an old-fashioned windlass, to drive the pipe 32 feet into bedrock. Around the middle of August, they began drilling with steam power and pushed the pipe down about three feet a day.
k Wax figure of "Uncle Billy" Smith in the Drake Well Museum at TitusviUe....
But people around TitusviUe did not pay much attention to Drake's drilling, and most were prone to mock his efforts. Dr. Giddens pointed out in The Early Petroleum Industry: "Almost everyone regarded drilling for oil as visionary and sure to prove abortive; there was a complete lack of confidence in the idea, and at times his activities were the subject of ridicule.
"Even Dr. Brewer, a stockholder in the company which leased the land, seemed to regard the whole affair as a joke. To the young men in TitusviUe, he gave away cigars, laughingly saying 'Have some on me!
What to read after Success At Oil Creek?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Ontario Dept of Public Records And Archives to read onlineMoreLess
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