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Exercise 5. Answer the questions
1. What was more valuable use of the rock peddled by the
Indians?
2. What was the first method of collecting the floating oil?
3. Why was Edwin Drake hired by the Pennsylvania Rock
Oil Company?
4. What did the title of “colonel” mean for people in
Titusville?
5. What gave Drake the idea of making a casing for the well?
6. Who and when noticed rich black petroleum in the hole?
7. Had Colonel Drake’s idea paid off? How?
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