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• ROV – Swimming Socket Wrench
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• This Week in Petroleum History, January 6 – 12
• Spindletop launches Modern Petroleum Industry
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• First Arkansas Oil Wells
• Ending Oil Gushers – BOP
• Oregon Wildcatters
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• Fishing in Petroleum Wells
• Sweeney’s 1866 Rotary Rig
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• Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
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• Mrs. Alford’s Nitro Factory
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• Lou Della Crim Revealed
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• Arctic Explorer turned Oil Promoter
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• Project Gasbuggy tests Nuclear “Fracking”
• Mrs. Dysart’s Uranium Well
• Ethyl Anti-Knock Gas
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• Making a Two-Wick Lamp
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• Coin-Operated Gas Pumps
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• America on the Move
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• Houston Ship Channel
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• Oilfields of Dreams — Gassers, Oilers and Drillers
• Cantankerous Combustion — First U.S. Auto Show
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• This Week in Petroleum History, October 21 – 27
• Meet Joe Roughneck
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• Roaring Ranger wins WWI
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• Offshore Rocket Launcher
• First Arizona Oil and Gas Wells
• First Oil Well Fire
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• Kansas Oil Boom
• East Texas Oilfield Discovery
• Derricks of Triumph Hill
• Million Barrel Museum
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• This Week in Petroleum History: September 23 – 29
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• Horace Horton’s Spheres
• First California Oil Wells
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• Oil Reigns at King Ranch
• Downhole Bazooka
• This Week in Petroleum History: September 16 – 22
• First Utah Oil Wells
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• First Texas Oil Well
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• First Gas Pump and Service Station
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• First American Oil Well
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• Prophet of Spindletop
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• First Car, First Road Trip
• Ames Astrobleme Museum
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