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Edwin Laurentine Drake aka Colonel Drake, (1819 – 1880), discovering oil in 1858 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, U
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Edwin Laurentine Drake aka Colonel Drake, (1819 – 1880), discovering oil in 1858 in Titusville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. whilst working for the Seneca Oil Company. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published c. 1870