The early and later history of petroleum
Subtitle: with authentic facts in regard to its development in western Pennsylvania, the oil fields of Europe and America ... the Parkers' and Butler County oil fields ; also, life sketches of pioneer and prominent operators, with the refining capacity of the United States
By: by J.T. Henry.
Publisher: Jas. B. Rodgers Co.
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 607
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- History.; Petroleum industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.; Businessmen -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.; Petroleum industry and trade -- History.; Petroleum engineering.
Other titles: Gas wells. Spiritual wells. Oil well shafts. Petroleum products. Oil companies. Pipe line statistics. Early modes of transportation. Flowing wells of 1861 to 1864. Pit Hole in 1865. The lubricating oil district, &c. Also, statistics of product, export, and consumption, with prices of oil from 1859 to 1872, &c., &c.
Notes: Includes 27 photographic portrait prints, photographic frontispiece. Other illustrations are reproductions of wood engravings.