Интервью с Робертом Андерсоном.
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«George Bissell: Compiled by his Grandson, Pelham St. George Bissell,» Dartmouth College Library; Paul H. Giddens, The Birth of the Oil Industry (New York: Macmillan, 1938), p. 52, chap. 3; Harold F. Williamson and Arnold R. Daum, The American Petroleum Industry, vol. 1, The Age of Illumination, 1859–1899 (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1959), pp. 23–24. Giddens and Williamson and Daum are basic sources. Paul H. Giddens, Pennsylvania Petroleum, 1750–1872: A Documentary History (Titusville: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1947), p. 54 («Seneca oil»); J.T. Henry, The Early and Later History of Petroleum (Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co., 1873), pp. 82–83; Henry H. Townsend, New Haven and the First Oil Well (New Haven, 1934), pp. 1–3 («curative powers» and poem).
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Gerald T. White, Scientists in Conflict: The Beginnings of the Oil Industry in California (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1968), pp. 38–45 (on Silliman); Petroleum Gazette, April 8, 1897, p. 8; Paul H. Giddens, The Begnnings of the Oil Industry: Sources and Bibliography (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1941), pp. 23 («I can promise»), 62 («unexpected success»); Giddens, Beginnings of the Oil Industry: Sources, pp. 33–35, 40 («hardest times»), 38, 8 («turning point»); B. Silliman, Jr., Report on the Rock Oil, or Petroleum, from Venango Co., Pennsylvania (New Haven: J. H. Benham's, 1855), pp. 9–10, 20.
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Abraham Gesner, A Practical Treatise on Coal, Petroleum, and Other Distilled Oils, ed. George W. Gesner, 2d ed. (New York: Baillie're Bros., 1865), chap. 1; Henry, Early and Later History of Petroleum, p. 53; Kendall Beaton, «Dr. Gesner's Kerosene: The Start of American Oil Refining», Business History Review 29 (March 1955), pp. 35–41 («new liquid hydrocarbon»); Gregory Patrick Nowell, «Realpolitik vs. Transnational Rent-Seeking: French Mercantilism and the Development of the World Oil Cartel, 1860–1939» (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1988), pp. 104–08; Business History Review, ed., Oil's First Century (Boston: Harvard Business School, 1960), pp. 8 («coal oils»), 19 («impetuous energy»).
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R. J. Forbes, Bitumen and Petroleum in Antiquity (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1936), pp. 11–21, 57 («incredible miracles»), 92 («eyelashes»), 95–99; R.J.Forbes, Studies in Early Petroleum History (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1958), pp. 150–53; R. J. Forbes, More Studies in Early Petroleum History (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1959), pp. 20 («unwearied fire»), 71 («pitch and tow»).
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S. J. M. Eaton, Petroleum: A History of the Oil Region of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Skelly & Co., 1865), pp. 211–13; Beaton, «Dr. Gesner's Kerosene,» pp. 44–45.
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«Brief Development of the Petroleum Industry in Penn. Prepared at the Request of and Under the Supervision of James M. Townsend,» D-14, Drake Well Museum («Oh Townsend»).
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E. L. Drake manuscript, D-96, Drake Well Museum, p. 4 («I had made up my mind»); Herbert Asbury, The Golden Flood: An Informal History of America's First Oil Field (New York: Knopf, 1942), pp. 52–53 (Drake to Townsend); Giddens, Birth of the Oil Industry, pp. 30–31, 59–61 («Yankee»).
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Forbes, More Studies in Early Petroleum History, p. 141 («light of the age»); Giddens, Beginnings of the Oil Industry: Sources, pp. 81–83 (Bissell to wife), 59 («I claim»); Leon Burr Richardson, «Brief Biographies of Buildings – Bissell Hall,» Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, February 1943, pp. 18–19; Henry, Early and Later History of Petroleum, p. 349 («name and fame»); Townsend, «Brief Development,» D-14, Drake Well Museum («whole plan»); Giddens, Pennsylvania Petroleum, p. 189 («milk of human kindness»).
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Giddens, Birth of the Oil Industry, pp. 71 («hive of bees»), 169, 95 («mine is ruined»).
скважин вдоль Ойл-Крик было и того хуже – иногда выше колена, но Джону Арчболду все было нипочем. Если дело касалось покупки нефти или заключения сделки, то он пробирался вброд, напевая песенку».