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	The Ghost of Colonel Drake \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Drake and his crew fired up the boiler, and began ramming the cast iron drive pipe down the shaft as his machinery pounded the rock with an iron auger hung at the end of a strong rope.
		Drake's failure would have verified and confirmed the conventional wisdom that it was not practical to dig a well for the sole purpose of producing oil.
		Edwin Drake died in 1880 and was buried in Bethlehem in a pauper's grave.
	www.energybulletin.net /8295.html (3221 words)

	Edwin Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edwin Laurentine Drake (1819-1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil.
		Drake's employers were seeking enough crude oil to establish a new enterprise, providing kerosene for lamps.
		Drake, a native of Greene County, New York, had spent his earlier life working as a clerk, an express agent, and a railway conductor on a brand new, sometimes dangerous conveyance, the railroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edwin_Drake (762 words)

	Edwin Laurentine Drake...SciPeeps.com
		Edwin Laurentine "Colonel" Drake (1819-1880), an American oil driller, is popularly credited with having "discovered" oil.
		Then, in the late 1850's Edwin Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits in Titusville, Pennsylvania.
		Drake was summoned and the oil was brought to the surface with a hand pitcher pump.
	www.scipeeps.com /edwindrake.html (659 words)

	Col. Edwin L. Drake - The Lampworks
		Edwin Laurentine Drake was born in Greenville, Greene County, New York on March 29, 1819.
		Drake himself made no fortune from the industry that he was so instrumental in creating.
		Edwin L. Drake was buried in Bethlehem, but in 1901 his body was moved to the Woodlawn Cemetery in Titusville, Pennsylvania, where a wonderful monument honors his memory.
	www.thelampworks.com /lw_edwin_drake.htm (605 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Drake, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Drake, Francis Marion DRAKE, FRANCIS MARION [Drake, Francis Marion] 1830-1903, Union army officer in the Civil War, railroad president, and governor of Iowa (1896-98), b.
		Drake's Bay DRAKE'S BAY [Drake's Bay] inlet of the Pacific Ocean, formed by the San Andreas fault, W Calif., NW of San Francisco.
		Drake Univ. She married the playwright George Cram Cook (1913) and with him organized (1915) the Provincetown Players, an avant-garde theater group in Massachusetts.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Drake, (649 words)

	Virtual Field Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edwin Drake directed that an iron pipe be driven through the sand and clay into bedrock.
		Drake used washtubs and kettles and whatever empty whisky barrels he could get in nearby towns to hold the oil from his well.
		Drake died in 1880 at the age of 61.
	www.witf.org /vft/drakeFAQ.htm (2053 words)

	Drake's Well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Drake left the oil belt, which he had discovered, only to suffer debilitating sickness and to die in penury.
		Drake had a marvelous degree of perseverance and succeeded with his well in spite of all the adverse opinions and jibes of the scoffers.
		Drake had expected to go much deeper, but geology turned out to be in his favor.
	www.tcnj.edu /~krause2/tsng201/drake.html (626 words)

	DRAKE Family - Western North Carolina - Obituary and Death Notice
		Drake was a native of Henderson County and was born February 12, 1907 the son of the late Harvey and Mrs.
		Drake was a lifelong resident of Henderson County and was a retired painter.
		Drake was a native and life-long resident of Henderson County, the son of the late Nathan and Emma Anders Drake.
	www.tadrake.addr.com /obituaries.htm (16096 words)

	Drake, Edwin Laurentine - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		DRAKE, EDWIN LAURENTINE [Drake, Edwin Laurentine] 1819-80, American oil well driller, b.
		Greene co., N.Y. In 1858 he was employed to conduct drilling operations and on Aug. 27, 1859, he struck oil near Titusville, Pa., at a depth of 69 ft (21.1 m).
		Drake's was the first producing oil well in the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-drake-ed.html (130 words)

	Edwin Drake: Raw Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edwin Drake was an unemployed train conductor when the Seneca Oil Company hired him - at $85.00 a month - to prospect their property in western Pennsylvania.
		Drake's discovery fueled revolutions in transportation and industry - and made billionaires out of men like J. Paul Getty and John D. Rockefeller - but the oil industry refused to give Drake even the most meager pension.
		For the full story of Edwin Drake's raw deal - and those of 22 other American victims - read RAW DEAL, new in paperback from Blast Books.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Drake/fr2drk.htm (217 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Edwin Drake
		Born in Greenville, New York, Edwin Drake's first career was as a conductor on a brand new, sometimes dangerous conveyance: the railroad.
		At last Drake found a reliable driller -- William A. "Uncle Billy" Smith, a flsmith who forged his own tools and reported for work in late May. They built a derrick of pine wood and began drilling.
		When water flooded the hole, Drake innovated a solution; he drove an iron pipe down to bedrock, then placed the drill inside the pipe to keep water out of the excavated shaft.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/drake_lo.html (494 words)

	Vermont History: Edwin L. Drake
		Drake worked a succession of jobs in the Midwest and East after leaving the family farm at age 19, ending up as a conductor for the New York and New Haven Railroad (1850-57).
		In the late 1850s he bought stock in George Bissell's Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, and in 1857 (taking advantage of his conductor's job to travel free) he traveled to see the land near Oil Creek (Titusville), Pennsylvania, where surface oil was being collected.
		Drake had given birth to an industry which would dominate the 20th century, but would die a pauper.
	www.virtualvermont.com /history/edrake.html (257 words)

	Edwin Laurentine Drake Biography \| scit_05123456_package.xml
		In his early years, Drake was a jack-of-all-trades, working as a hotel clerk, railway express agent, and conductor before finding a position with a Pennsylvania oil company.
		While there, he studied the use of cable tools in salt-drilling, and came to the conclusion that the same method could be used to drill for oil.
		Drake pioneered the use of an iron pipe in drilling, which kept the bore hole from filling up.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/edwin-laurentine-drake-scit-05123456 (142 words)

	Titusville faculty member labors to give local 19th-century women their rightful place in history
		Women were so forgotten when the museum opened in the early 1960s that even Edwin Drake sat alone in his display with no indication he had a wife, let alone that she had saved the family from destitution by taking in sewing and boarders after he lost all their money speculating in oil stocks.
		Drake now sits behind glass with his wife, Laura, looking over his shoulder and there is an extensive display on Mary Ann Chase Fletcher, granddaughter of Jonathan Titus, founder of Titusville, and the wife of R. Fletcher, one of the town's most prominent businessmen.
		Andes was searching the museum's vault for material on Laura Drake, when she found a box labeled "R. Fletcher, Poems and Recipes." When Andes opened the box, she discovered that the material actually had been preserved by the daughter of the businessman.
	www.pitt.edu /utimes/issues/29/101096/25.html (1155 words)

	drake - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Drake, Sir Francis (1540?-96), English navigator and explorer, born near Tavistock.
		Drake, Edwin (1819-1880), American petroleum engineer, credited with drilling the first productive oil well in the United States.
		Drake University, private, coeducational institution in Des Moines, Iowa.
	encarta.msn.com /drake.html (107 words)

	Super Scientists - Edwin Laurentine Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Born in Greenville, New York, Drake is considered the petroleum entrepreneur of the oil industry.
		A former railroad conductor, his success in hitting oil was based on his belief that drilling would be the best way to obtain petroleum from the earth.
		Drake used an old steam engine to power the drill.
	www.energyquest.ca.gov /scientists/drake.html (163 words)

	Edwin L. Drake and the Birth of the Modern Petroleum Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Edwin L. Drake and the Birth of the Modern Petroleum Industry
		On August 27, Edwin L. Drake struck oil in the first commercially successful well drilled specifically for oil and launched the modern petroleum industry in the United States.
		Drake did not discover oil, nor was he the first to find it in North America.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/edwin/page1.asp?secid=31 (608 words)

	The Drake Well in Pennsylvania
		The truth was, Edwin Drake was not a "Colonel" of anything.
		On August 27, 1859, Drake and Smith drilled to a depth of 21.18 m (69 1/2 feet).
		Drake received this order on the very day that he struck oil.
	www.priweb.org /ed/pgws/history/pennsylvania/pennsylvania2.html (572 words)

	Discovery struck more than oil - PittsburghLIVE.com
		As a representative of Seneca Oil, Drake was looking to do one thing with the oil he was drilling for.
		Drake employed a salt well driller named William "Uncle Billy" Smith from Tarentum to help him, and the famous strike was made in the summer of 1859, an event that would change the world.
		After Drake's discovery, a boom started in the area, and for the next 10 to 15 years, towns like Pithole, Red Hot and others sprung up.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/leadertimes/s_157558.html (611 words)

	Pennsylvania Geological Survey: Drake Well
		"Colonel" Edwin L. Drake (right) and his good friend Peter Wilson, a Titusville pharmacist, in front of the historic Drake well in 1861.
		The Drake well was drilled to 69 and 1/2 feet in 1859 to become the world's first commercial oil well.
		The Drake Well Museum and Oil Creek State Park can be visited in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /topogeo/oilandgas/drake.aspx (127 words)

	FSO Editorials: "Barrels of Oil, Miles of Mud" by Edwin Drake 03.18.2005
		On its first day of operation, Aug. 27, 1859, Edwin Drake's well in the small town of Titusville, Pennsylvania, had produced all of 25 barrels of oil from the depths of the earth, albeit the very shallow depth of 69 feet.
		It took over a week for James Townsend, who lived in Connecticut and was the promoter and fund-raiser of the drilling project, to learn from his man on the spot, Edwin Drake, about the successful oil well.
		A nervous Townsend informed almost no one, out of fear that the Drake well was a fluke and would dry up within a short time after the initial success.
	www.financialsense.com /editorials/daily/2005/0318.html (1675 words)

	Modern Exploration, Inc. - The History of Oil
		Drake spent almost a year -- from 1858 to 1859 -- getting the money and building the equipment (including a steam engine) he needed to drill.
		The investors became nervous, and late that summer, they sent a letter to Drake directing that he cease operations pay off his debts and give up.
		But in the almost 150 years since Edwin L. Drake drilled the very first U.S. oil well, a lot of oil fields have gone dry.
	www.modernexploration.com /thehistoryofoil/index.html (2836 words)

	Virtual Field Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		DRAKE WELL MUSEUM: A VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP is a companion resource to the ExplorePAhistory.com project, part of WITF's continuing commitment to connect Pennsylvania residents, visitors, and students with the rich history of the Commonwealth.
		Museum historians provide background information on oil gathering methods used before drilling and oil's earliest uses by Native Americans, while Edwin Drake himself (as portrayed by Bob Archer), demonstrates how the oil was first drilled and collected in Pennsylvania.
		DRAKE WELL MUSEUM: A VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP is the first in a series of shows that will be presented by WITF.
	www.witf.org /vft/vftrelease.shtml (469 words)

	PENNSYLVANIA EVENTS - The First Oil Well
		When Edwin Drake drilled the world's first modern oil well in Pennsylvania, he had not discovered oil.
		Then the Seneca Oil Co. was formed and hired Edwin Drake to find a new way of getting large quantities of it to the surface.
		"Col." Drake tried many times and used up most of his money on digging into the ground after the investors had given up, only to have the holes cave in and bury his progress.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/oil.html (375 words)

	Drake Well Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Drake Well Museum collects, preserves, and interprets the founding of the oil industry in Pennsylvania for residents and visitors by educating its audiences about the persons, places, and events important to the development of the petroleum industry and its growth into a global enterprise.
		Individuals with special needs who may require assistance should call the Museum ahead of time to discuss arrangements.
		The Drake Well Museum is administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
	www.drakewell.org (112 words)

	The Drake Well - the first oil well...in Pennsylvania?
		The most important oil well ever drilled was in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859.
		Known as the Drake Well, after "Colonel" Edwin Drake, the man responsible for the well, it began an international search for petroleum, and in many ways eventually changed the way we live.
		They hoped that "rock oil" could be recovered from the ground in large enough quantities to be used commercially as a fuel for lamps.
	www.priweb.org /ed/pgws/history/pennsylvania/pennsylvania.html (482 words)

	Digital History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The modern era of oil production began on August 27, 1859, when Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well 69 feet deep near Titusville in northwestern Pennsylvania.
		By drilling an oil well, Drake had hoped to meet the growing demand for oil for lighting and industrial lubrication.
		Drake's success inspired hundreds of small companies to explore for oil.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/oil.cfm (983 words)

	First Oil Strike:Least-aspected Neptune:Mundane Astrology:Petroleum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Petroleum is used to make such items in the home as aspirins, carpets, curtains, detergents, phonograph records, plastic toys, and toothpaste.Most historians trace the start of the oil industry on a large scale to 1859.
		That year, a retired railroad conductor named Edwin L. Drake drilled a well near Titusville, Pa. Drake used an old steam engine to power the drill.
		Within three years, so much oil was being produced in the area that the price of a barrel dropped from $20 to 10 cents.
	members.tripod.com /tra_nations/1e_oil1.htm (589 words)

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