How things have changed...
Tom's "revolutionary" rotary well drill may have been actually invented in 1894 A rotary drilling rig was used to drill Corsicana's first well in that year. It is now housed in the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology.
Picture Post Card - Greatest Oil Fields in U.S.
Powell Field - Corsicana
From the collection of Edward L. Williams
To give an idea of the poor drilling practices of the times...this well blew out while it was in the process of being plugged and abandoned!
A lazy day o the beach at Huntington.
Another view of the above.
Gushers like this one were common, particularly in the early days of oil harvesting.
An oil gusher in Beaumont, Texas, about 1900
John and Richard on site at Golden Eagle happy about the 10,000psi and 9,999 units trip-gas "shows"
Cheers!
interesting pictures...
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