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p62_3.jpg Chinese mining coal from surface deposits. Coal was the leading fuel inChina by the 1000s
> BY AD 300s		 p62_4.jpg
First vehicle to move using steam. Designed by Nicholas J Cugnot
> 1769		 Edwin L. Drake drills first successful oil well in US, 69 feet deep in Pennsylvania.Inspires hundreds of small companies
> Aug 27, 1859		 p62_5.jpg
World oil production reaches 500,000 barrels a year
> 1860s
> AROUND3000 BC
Pitch, a sticky water
repellent product of
petroleum used by the Egyptians to coat
mummies		 > 1600s
Severe shortage
of wood in Europe.
Focus to coal.
England produces
80 per cent of the coal produced. Remains top producer for next
200 years		 p62_2.jpg (3581 bytes)> 1854
Invention of kerosene lamp. Intense demand for oil		 > 1862
Etienne Lenoir patents the first petroleum based
or petrol engine

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Oil production soars to 20 million barrels a year
> 1870s

 Robert Nobel arrives in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. He and his brother soon supplied the world with half its oil.
> 1873		 The first oil well in Texas
> 1887		 p_63.gif (10457 bytes)
Henry Ford introduces the assembly line method of production. Cars are mass-produced
> 1913-14
p63_1.gif (20652 bytes) > 1876
Nokolaus Otto patents the gasoline powered four-stroke engine

 

 > 1896
Henry Ford builds and sells his first car Quadracycle, for $200 and uses the money to build another one		 > 1920
USoil production reaches 450 million barrels. Fear of running out. Search for oil turns worldwide

 

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