1. Johnd D.Rockefeller: Captain Of Industry
In that same year the first oil well was drilled at Titusville in western Pennsylvania, giving rise to the petroleum industry. ... Some innovative techniques he used to increase his industry included manufacturing his own barrels and sulfuric acid (which was used in the purification process), shipping oil via tank cars, building huge holding tanks near refineries for storing crude and refined oil with the equipment for drawing off the oil from the tank cars into the holding tanks. ... Before long the company was refining 29,000 barrels of crude oil a day. ... eyes, the state of the oil busin...
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