In the late 1850s Seneca Oil Company ( formerly the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company ) sent its manager, Colonel Edwin L . Drake, to start drilling on a piece of leased land just south of Titusville, near what is now Oil Creek State Park.
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In his book " Dream Pool Essays " written in 1088, the polymathic scientist and statesman Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty coined the word �w�l ( " Sh�y�u ", literally " rock oil " ) for petroleum, which remains the term used in contemporary Chinese.
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Ignacy Aukasiewicz improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from the more readily available " rock oil " ( " petr-oleum " ) seeps in 1852 and the first rock oil mine was built in New Haven, was the first to fractionate petroleum by distillation.
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Ignacy Aukasiewicz improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from the more readily available " rock oil " ( " petr-oleum " ) seeps in 1852 and the first rock oil mine was built in New Haven, was the first to fractionate petroleum by distillation.
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In his book " Dream Pool Essays " written in 1088, the polymathic scientist and statesman Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty coined the word �w�l ( " Sh�y�u ", literally " rock oil " ) for petroleum, which remains the term used in contemporary Chinese and Japanese ( " Sekiyk " ).
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He believed that petroleum ( which the Chinese called'rock oil') was produced inexhaustibly within the earth and so decided to make an ink from the soot of burning petroleum, which the later pharmacologist Li Shizhen ( 1518 & ndash; 1593 ) wrote was as lustrous as lacquer and was superior to pine soot ink.
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The earliest mention of " rock oil " ( �w�l ), the Chinese name for petroleum, is by a book " Grand Peace Records " from the Northern Song Dynasty, and officially designated the current name by Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo using the description found in his famous book " Dream Pool Essays ".
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It was only after Ignacy Aukasiewicz had improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from the more readily available " rock oil " ( " petr-oleum " ) seeps in 1852 that the first rock oil mine was built near Krosno in central European Galicia ( Poland / Ukraine ) in 1853.
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It was only after Ignacy Aukasiewicz had improved Gesner's method to develop a means of refining kerosene from the more readily available " rock oil " ( " petr-oleum " ) seeps in 1852 that the first rock oil mine was built near Krosno in central European Galicia ( Poland / Ukraine ) in 1853.
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According to Ron Chernow's bestselling book, " Titan, " when Rockefeller created Standard Oil in the 1860s, all the petroleum in the world was produced in one corner of Pennsylvania . ( " Pennzoil, " indeed . ) Nobody knew when the wells would play out, or whether " rock oil " could be extracted anywhere else.
