Edwin Drake

Mining.

First oil well drilled at Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake, English, in eighteen fifty-nine.

In Texas, oil was first struck by Anthony F. Lucas, Yugoslav.

Coal in Pennsylvania first discovered by William Jones, Welsh.

for a fire torch to stay on in a tunnel system that is 18 floors deep due to the lack of oxygen ventilation and fuel source where it states even if a fire were to start in a tunnel system the amount of fuel may be limited it would need a continuous source of fuel.

Now, this is not realistic at all in the narrative that we are all told, especially since we are told that Edwin Drake drilled the first crude oil well in 1859.

So, Electricity, a light bulb, is the only option.

18 levels below the ground.

You know, the really nerdy people might talk about, you know,

Colonel Drake who drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania or someone like the Goyler or someone.

You know, they may throw a name at you if they're really, really into it.

Darcy, I guess, from Darcy's Law.

So entities like Standard Oil and these other companies, they figured out how to build long-distance pipelines to get more prolific natural gas fields in, say, northern West Virginia to get their production sort of piped up to the Pittsburgh region.

That energy, whether it was coal or natural gas with the oil industry, which also started in Pennsylvania with, uh, w- with Drake, Colonel Drake Well up in Oil City just to the north of Pittsburgh.

All that stuff fed those downstream industries, right? So it powered the railroad industry.

It created freight for the railroad industry, which then spun its web across America.