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The Petroleum Monthly; Devoted To The Interests Of The Oil Business February 1872

The Petroleum Monthly; Devoted To The Interests Of The Oil Business February 1872

J H Bowman

Paperback

EconomicsTechnology & EngineeringGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 935450339X
ISBN13: 9789354503399
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.10 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
America was running on oil. February 1872 captures the moment, when energy, money, and invention were colliding. The Petroleum Monthly, edited by J. H. Bowman, is a 19th century trade journal built for decision-makers: merchants, refiners, drillers, shippers, investors. It reads like a ledger. In these pages an oil industry magazine reprint becomes a vivid window onto petroleum market reports, the practical realities of oil drilling and refining, and the expanding trade in kerosene and lubricants. Written close to the wells and the counting-houses, this historical business periodical preserves the language of prices, supply, transport, and risk, plus the working assumptions that linked field, refinery, and market. Its voice is brisk, practical, unvarnished. As an energy history research source, it offers primary testimony from early oil and gas at the height of industrial revolution commerce: how a fast-growing resource was measured, marketed, argued over, and standardised during the Gilded Age oil boom. Read it for the cadence of commerce around a volatile commodity, and for the period detail that modern summaries smooth away. Collectors of petroleum industry archives collection materials will value the specificity of February 1872 America, while casual readers will find an engrossing portrait of workaday capitalism before the modern energy system had settled into place. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, for classic-literature collectors and anyone who wants authentic business documents close at hand.

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