A Short History of Oil: 1700-1870 // Whale Oil, Kerosene, Drake Well & Rockefeller Documentary

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0:00 A Source of Fuel
0:39 1700: Whale Oil
1:40 1846: Kerosene in Canada
2:46 1860: Oil in Pennsylvania
4:52 Rockefeller & Standard Oil
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The history of oil documentary by Kimray. From 1700-1850, the fuel that lit the houses, governments, and businesses of America and much of Europe was whale oil. In 1846, Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner called his new invention kerosene.

In 1858, a Dartmouth professor named George Bissel was traveling through rural Pennsylvania when he noticed some locals skimming a dark liquid off the top of a creek.

On Sunday, August 28, 1859 Drake’s driller, William “Uncle Billy” Smith, came out to peer into the well, and saw dark fluid floating on top of the water.

By the end of 1859, wells had sprung up throughout the new oil country.

Petroleum was experiencing its first boom and bust cycle. It continued to spike and drop in the first volatile decade after its discovery until a shrewd, visionary businessman named John D. Rockefeller organized a company called Standard Oil of Ohio, which streamlined oil production and began a dominating hold on the industry.