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Petroleum
Albert Lidgett
Trace a barrel of oil from the ground to the lamp. Lidgett explains where petroleum comes from, the oil-fields scattered across the world, how it is drilled and pumped, refined, and shipped by land and sea, and how it powers engines and homes. A clear early primer on the fuel that remade the modern age. Understand the industry that runs beneath everything.
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31 chapters
- 1PITMAN’S COMMON COMMODITIES AND INDUSTRIES PETROLEUM BY ALBERT LIDGETT EDITOR OF THE “PETROLEUM TIMES” LATE EDITOR OF THE “PETROLEUM REVIEW” London Sir Isaac Pitman Sons, Ltd., 1 Amen Corner, E.C.4 Bath, Melbourne and New York Printed by Sir Isaac Pitman Sons, Ltd., London, Bath, Melbourne and New York
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHEADLE HEATH, STOCKPORT
- 5LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6CHAPTER I PETROLEUM AND ITS ORIGIN
- 7CHAPTER II THE OIL-FIELDS OF THE WORLD
- 8CHAPTER III HOW PETROLEUM IS PRODUCED
- 9CHAPTER IV THE REFINING OF PETROLEUM
- 10CHAPTER V TRANSPORT BY LAND AND SEA
- 11CHAPTER VI PETROLEUM AS FUEL
- 12TYPICAL LIQUID FUEL BURNERS
- 13CHAPTER VII PETROLEUM AS A LIGHTING AND COOKING AGENT
- 14CHAPTER VIII INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
- 15CHAPTER IX PETROLEUM IN ENGLAND
- 16CHAPTER X PETROLEUM IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
- 17CHAPTER XI PETROLEUM’S PART IN THE GREAT WAR
- 18CHAPTER XII THE SCOTTISH SHALE-OIL INDUSTRY
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