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

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...

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...

architectural plan to promote tourism in upper Assam. Barely seven years after Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 at Titusville, Pennsylvania...

Paul Adams Louis King Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake Colonel Edwin L. Drake Arthur Pierson Casanova's Big Night Casanova Norman Z. McLeod...

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

became a tourist attraction. On August 27, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially...

Revolution likely would have been delayed or not possible. In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled the first oil well in the U.S. near Titusville. Similar rock...

1853. Hollis, in turn, sold all his land on April 25 to Henry Bastian. Edwin L. Drake drilled the first commercially successful oil well in nearby Titusville...

born in Acra, NY. Newspaper publisher, politician, and party boss Edwin L. Drake, (1819-1880), invented method to drill oil from the ground, born in...

positive results. More than a decade later, on August 27, 1859, "Colonel" Edwin L. Drake struck oil on American soil for the first time. A small petrochemical...

Philadelphia and Erie Railroad entered the town in 1858 shortly before Edwin L. Drake successfully drilled for oil in Titusville. The impact on the young...

of Music, Philadelphia 1859 — First successful oil well, Titusville (Edwin L. Drake) 1861 — First pretzel factory, Julius Sturgis, Lititz 1863 — First Civil...

discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on August 27, 1859 by Edwin L. Drake was the beginning of the end of commercial whaling in the United States...

mid-1850s. George Bissell, a Yale University chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling...

mid-1850s. George Bissell, a Yale University chemistry professor, and Edwin L. Drake, a former railroad conductor, made the first successful use of a drilling...

December 21, 1955, the route was designated as the "Col. Drake Highway" in honor of Edwin L. Drake, the first to drill for oil in the United States. By 1980...

Ships Association". Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Sawyer, L. A.; Mitchell, W. H. (1985). The Liberty Ships (second ed.). London: LLoyd's...

was discovered in western Pennsylvania. In 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig at Titusville, Pennsylvania...

discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on August 27, 1859, by Edwin L. Drake was the beginning of the end of commercial whaling in the United States...

Harris George Vickers John W Powell Contract date 24 December 1942 Edwin L. Drake Thomas U. Walter Thorstein Veblen John T Holt Arunah S. Abell Joshua...

1964 1-13 "The Colonel from Connecticut" 1859 Edwin L. Drake#Drilling for oil Colonel Edwin L. Drake Benjamin Silliman Jr. Richard Kiley Whit Bissell...

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...

62653; -79.65322 (Early Refinery) City Business & Industry, Oil & Gas Edwin L. Drake November 18, 1946 Woodlawn Cemetery, Spring Street (PA 8), Titusville...

Family. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-8061-3027-9. Edwin L. Drake (1879). Chronological Summary of Battles and Engagements of the Western...

(2009). "Ports database". convoyweb.org.uk. Retrieved 13 May 2012. Sawyer, L. A.; Mitchell, W. H. (1985). The Liberty Ships: The History of the "Emergency"...

Harris George Vickers John W Powell Contract date 24 December 1942 Edwin L. Drake Thomas U. Walter Thorstein Veblen John T Holt Arunah S. Abell Joshua...

tools, the first drilling for oil in Dithmarschen, three years before Edwin L. Drake, tapped the first oil well in Pennsylvania. It was the first ever drilling...

Congress: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Edwin L. Drake (1879). Chronological Summary of Battles and Engagements of the Western...

Harris George Vickers John W Powell Contract date 24 December 1942 Edwin L. Drake Thomas U. Walter Thorstein Veblen John T Holt Arunah S. Abell Joshua...