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Drilled 69 1/2 feet to strike oil in Titusville PA and is credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States.
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Pacific Coast Oil Co. was founded in San Francisco by Lloyd Tevis, George Loomis and Charles Felton. It eventually became ChevronTexaco.
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Edwin Drake the first man to find oil died penniless
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Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil was organized as a trust.
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The Hurricane of 1900 was in the city of Galveston, Texas, in the United States.
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At this time in history the spindletop well struck oil, which massively effected the oil boom.
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Wright Brothers made their first motorized that flight lasted 59 seconds.
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The model T is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company.
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Howard Hughes Sr. developed a new type of drill bit called the rotary drill bit.
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Over 650,000 automobiles registered in the United States.
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Oregon introduced the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used for road construction.
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In 1945 began the Esenhower interstate highway system this provided more roads and contructed more jobs
