[SEL] Found Looking for Something Else

fero_ah at city-net.com fero_ah at city-net.com
Mon Jul 28 15:36:04 PDT 2008


Well, I'm sure that's happened to all of us.  But THIS is really neat!

The Tallini Tales of Destruction
http://www.logwell.com/tales/menu/index.html

Here's a bit from the intro....  Enjoy!!

See ya,  Arnie

Life is too short to compile a complete history of nitroglycerin in the oil
fields.  But the Tales of Destruction series represents a sincere effort to
publish a chronological account of the use of nitroglycerin in the petroleum
industry.  These stories are based upon previously published material, company
records, personal observations, and interviews and conversations with past
employees and other oil well shooters.  The purpose is to save these tales from
oblivion, and to give readers a glimpse of one of world's deadliest industries.
 Never before has there been an effort to assemble such a comprehensive and
voluminous collection of tales of destruction.

In Northwestern Pennsylvania there flows a stream called Oil Creek.  Along the
banks of Oil Creek have been written some of the most thrilling and romantic
chapters in oil field history.  It was near this stream, on August 27, 1859,
that Col. Edwin L. Drake completed the first well drilled specifically for oil.
 And it was there, on January 21, 1865, that Col. E.A.L. Roberts made the first
successful oil well shot on the Ladies Well, using 8 pounds of black powder
(nitroglycerin was first used 2 years later), ushering in the era of "Oil Well
Shooting", and in no small measure saving the Pennsylvania oil industry. 





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