A Short History of Oil: 1700-1870 // Whale Oil, Kerosene, Drake Well & Rockefeller Documentary
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0:00 A Source of Fuel
0:39 1700: Whale Oil
1:40 1846: Kerosene in Canada
2:46 1860: Oil in Pennsylvania
4:52 Rockefeller & Standard Oil
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The history of oil documentary by Kimray. From 1700-1850, the fuel that lit the houses, governments, and businesses of America and much of Europe was whale oil. In 1846, Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner called his new invention kerosene.
In 1858, a Dartmouth professor named George Bissel was traveling through rural Pennsylvania when he noticed some locals skimming a dark liquid off the top of a creek.
On Sunday, August 28, 1859 Drake’s driller, William “Uncle Billy” Smith, came out to peer into the well, and saw dark fluid floating on top of the water.
By the end of 1859, wells had sprung up throughout the new oil country.
Petroleum was experiencing its first boom and bust cycle. It continued to spike and drop in the first volatile decade after its discovery until a shrewd, visionary businessman named John D. Rockefeller organized a company called Standard Oil of Ohio, which streamlined oil production and began a dominating hold on the industry.
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Titusville is the KEY WORD in this video. From this moment on 'COMMERCIAL WHALING' fell to near zero. Crude petrol, and all products there-of saved many whale species 'FROM EXTINCTION'.
Succinct, articulate and informative. Thank you
They make Rockefeller look like the oil genius
Also, prohibition was to stop ethanol being used as fuel for heating homes and powering cars.
its good to watch...
Thanks
Chinese were making kerosene through the extraction and purification of petroleum , during the Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
@shjo2778
2 ай бұрын
Jesus Christ 😅 so white peopl were the ones ass backwards and behind ?
NICE
Very interesting,amazing did not know a Canadian invented Kerosine! Thanks for posting
@itachiofthesharingan67
10 ай бұрын
Chinese were making kerosene through the extraction and purification of petroleum
Thank you sir, on how oil concept came in from birds , Oceans n fishes.
@mustaffa1611
7 ай бұрын
oil does not come from fossils if thats what you are asking or implying.
Say this fast with a welsh accent! -“Whale oil beef hooked”!
Eulachon, not Salmon. Your Alaskan Fisherman thanks you.