The development of the
On Aug. 26, the construction by Samuel Kier
of the first still to refine oil into kerosene will be honored at the
“The construction of the first still and the
drilling of the first oil were certainly transforming achievements for chemistry
and chemical engineering,” Lane says. ”Our lives, our history and modern
society as we know it were changed immeasurably, and in ways unimaginable 150
years ago. “Our community as well as the entire country should be proud of
the legacy of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship by the pioneers of the
oil industry represented by Samuel Kier and Edwin Drake,” said Pennsylvania
state Representative Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango/Butler). “Their visions of how
a previously ignored, seeping black liquid could be chemically refined into so
many useful products has changed modern life incalculably in the last 150
years.”
The
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