August 27, 1859 - The Oil Age begins. UPDATED TO BE a) accurate b) less Eurocentric - All Our Yesterdays
UPDATE – Drake was not the beginning. Two years previously, some Romaninans had been at it in the city of Ploiesti (h/t to Jonathan Schofield – @schofield). Meanwhile, as @AmitavGhosh has pointed out Wikipedia here – “home to one of the world’s oldest petroleum industries, with its first crude oil exports dating back to 1853” […]
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