Fossil fuels’ expanding frontiers
WASHINGTON — What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London , seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance? Or perhaps Titusville , Pa.
Oil seeping from the ground there was collected for medicinal purposes — until Edwin Drake drilled and 150 years ago (Aug. 27, 1859) f...
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