European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The giant Oil Industry Marks its Centenary despite fhe development of atomic Power Petroleum remains the nation s most vital source of Energy to the Layman a modern Petroleum refinery is a tangle of tanks pipes and retorts. By Clyde h. Farnsworth up staff writer editor s note the Petroleum Industry which began with the discovery of the first successful Oil Well on aug. 27, 1859, is currently marking its 100th anniversary. The following article describes. What Oil has meant to the nation and to the world during its first Century As a source of Energy and what it is Likely to mean in the years ahead. A Century ago & retired Railroad conductor drilled an Oil Well in West Ern Pennsylvania and an Industry Des tined to shape the course of history was born. Oil had been known centuries before. Noah called the Ark with a form of Petro Leum called pitch gathered from seepage in Mesopotamia. Job tells of a Rock which poured out Rivers of  but it was t until Edwin l. Drake was hired by the Pennsylvania Rock Oil co. To investigate the firm s Titusville pa., prop erty that this Energy was unleashed and its commercial potential tapped. In the America of 1959 nearly All heavy work is done by machines lubricated and continued on Page 12 b Al Oil Rig now proliferate in the formerly quiet bayous of Louisiana cracking towers like this produce High octane Gas. Of fetal August 7, 1959 stars and stripes u