OIL INDUSTRY’S CENTENARY.—The modern oil industry measures its life from the discovery of oil in a well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Colonel E. L. Drake. This photograph shows Drake’s well, to which pilgrimages will be made today, the hundredth anniversary of its successful completion.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 8
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45OIL INDUSTRY’S CENTENARY.—The modern oil industry measures its life from the discovery of oil in a well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Colonel E. L. Drake. This photograph shows Drake’s well, to which pilgrimages will be made today, the hundredth anniversary of its successful completion. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 8
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