MORTAR FOR TOWER OF BABEL
Professor J. S. S. Brame, lecturing on “Petroleum in Hie Service of Man" at Fulham Town Hall. London, said that there was undoubted evidence that bitumen, a petroleum product, was known to tho Hebrews, and was in all probability tho “slime” used as mortar in Tmildi'ng the Tower of Babel. Nevertheless, though petroleum was Produced ages ago on a small scale in tlio East, the “oil age” was of little greater antiquity than 1859, when Colonel Drake struck, oil in Pennsylvania (records the “Morning Post”). Mineral oil. declared the lecturer, had almo-t revolutionised tho world, and the introduction of heavy oil internal combusion engines for ships promised to mark another era in the development of locomotion.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 199, 23 May 1925, Page 24
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