Photo: the replica engine house and derrick of the Drake Well at the Drake Well Museum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Credit: Niagara; Wikimedia Commons.

On This Day: World’s First Successful Oil Well – Drilled in 1859!

By Tony Pettinato on August 27, 2018

An article about Edwin L. Drake drilling the first commercially successful oil well, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, on 27 August 1859... (Read More)

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