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US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century - The Two Titans (Hardcover)
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US and Azerbaijani Oil in the Nineteenth Century - The Two Titans (Hardcover)
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The nineteenth century was an exciting and dynamic era of rapid
progress in industry and technology. One of the most vigorous of
the new industries was petroleum. It first transformed the way
people lit their houses, displacing whale oil and other
substitutes, and then revolutionized the entire field of energy and
helped create the modern world. During the nineteenth century, oil
was overwhelmingly dominated by the United States and the Russian
Empire, together responsible for 97% of the world's production; and
over the course of the century, nearly all the Russian Empire's oil
came from the territory that is now the independent state of
Azerbaijan. Many people don't know that the world's first
industrial oil well was drilled in Azerbaijan in 1846, thirteen
years before Drake's celebrated well in Pennsylvania. This book
covers oil in the United States and Azerbaijan, in all its
dynamism, from its earliest beginnings to the turn of the twentieth
century. It treats both business and technology, from the early
wildcatters to Standard Oil and the Nobel Brothers (yes, that
remarkable family created more than a famous prize!). The book
echoes into the present day; for good or ill, oil still moves the
world.
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