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“Drake is known as the ‘father of the petroleum industry’ because the technology he devised revolutionized how crude oil was produced and launched the large-scale petroleum industry,” noted Brice, author of the 2009 biography, Myth, Legend, Reality – Edwin Drake and the Early Oil Industry.
William Derek Drake (born 7 February 1962) is an English musician, keyboardist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a former member of the cult English rock band Cardiacs, whom he played with for nine years between 1983 and 1992.
The Drake Well Museum and Park is a museum in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania that chronicles the birth of the American oil industry in 1859 by Colonel Edwin Drake. The museum collects and preserves related artifacts.
At last Drake found a reliable driller -- William A. "Uncle Billy" Smith, a blacksmith who forged his own tools and reported for work in late May. They built a derrick of pine wood and began...
Drake William Smith. Actor: Lovers Lane. Drake William Smith is known for Lovers Lane (2000) and Shredder (2001).
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Finally, in April 1859 Drake hired William A. Smith, a trained blacksmith. Smith later recalled that Drake immediately asked him what he thought were the chances for success. "Very good," Smith reports that he replied.
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The Sea Nymphs were an English psychedelic folk band from Kingston upon Thames, England. The group comprised Cardiacs ' core members Tim Smith, William D. Drake and Sarah Smith. [6] They are commonly regarded as the quieter side of the parent band. [7]
