Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American businessman and the first American to successfully...

The well is the centerpiece of the Drake Well Museum located 3 miles (5 km) south of Titusville. Drilled by Edwin Drake in 1859, along the banks of Oil Creek...

oil industry in 1859 by Colonel Edwin Drake. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts. The reconstructed Drake Well demonstrates the first practical...

Thomas Edwin Drake (December 5, 1930 – February 2, 2017) was an American attorney, professional wrestler, politician, and member of the athletic staff...

America started in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in the Oil Creek Valley when Edwin L. Drake struck "rock oil" there in 1859. Titusville and other towns on the shores...

controversial point might be that Williams found oil above bedrock while Edwin Drake's well located oil within a bedrock reservoir. The discovery at Oil Springs...

first oil well in the Americas was drilled in 1859 by Edwin Drake at what is now called the Drake Well in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania.There also...

Canada. In the United States, the petroleum industry began in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The industry grew slowly in...

Seneca Oil Company. Colonel Edwin Drake became involved in the enterprise through his employment with Seneca Oil Co., and Drake played a critical role in...

Oil Company (formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company) sent Col. Edwin L. Drake to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville...

Company in Hydetown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. On August 27, 1859, Edwin Drake dug a successful commercial oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania which...

setting up a refinery near Jasło in 1859. The petroleum discovery by Edwin Drake - Drake Well in western Pennsylvania in 1859 caused a great deal of public...

Robert Edwin Drake (October 11, 1923 – January 12, 2006) was an American intelligence official who was Deputy Director of the National Security Agency...

Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition...

Canada. In the United States, the petroleum industry began in 1859 when Edwin Drake found oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. The industry grew slowly in...

ancient Chinese drilling technique was used by American businessman Edwin Drake to drill Pennsylvania's first oil well in 1859 using small steam engines...

fields became a major supplier of oil, and a center of innovation after Edwin Drake had struck oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania. Break-bulk boats and barges...

Jack Edwin Drake (July 29, 1934 – October 11, 2015) was an American politician in the Iowa State Representative from the 21st District. A Republican,...

Dorcas Drake (1916–1993), American judge Dusty Drake (born 1964), American musician Edward Drake (disambiguation), multiple people Edwin Drake (1819–1880)...

Pennsylvania. In 1955, the highway was designated as the Colonel Drake Highway in honor of Edwin Drake. PA 36 begins in the Bedford County hamlet of Yellow Creek...

of wildcat banks in the Midwest were known as "wild-catters" before Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in Pennsylvania. Hydrocarbon exploration William M...

benchmark futures contract for wholesale gasoline in the United States. Edwin Drake was the first to discover RBOB gasoline but discarded it as a byproduct...

co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757) 1880 – Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819) 1906 – Dorothea Beale, English suffragist...

Dalton Gang, who are subsequently replaced by their fictional cousins Edwin Drake James B. Eads Gustave Eiffel Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp Ulysses S...

Ratt Richard Diehl, archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar Edwin Drake, first American oil driller Jonathan Frakes, director and actor, Star...

Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil was first extracted from the Drake Well, which was drilled by Edwin Drake in "the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern...

in Vassiliou (2018). Edwin Drake's 1859 well near Titusville, Pennsylvania is popularly considered the first modern well. Drake's well is probably singled...

Shattuck and T. T. Jones, at about the same time as the well sunk by Edwin Drake near Titusville, Pennsylvania, often referred to as the first commercial...

Drake Well Museum, the site of the first successful commercial oil well in the United States, that was drilled under the direction of Colonel Edwin Drake...

Volta to invent "bad air" (marsh gas) detectors and ignitors. Meanwhile, Edwin Drake discovered oil (in Pennsylvania), allowing Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm...