Increased other businesses
- Steel tubes to transport
- lighting and heating were on demand
- Everything became more efficient
The Boom of Petroleum
- Russia-3500 tons
- doubled output within 50 years
- It was on demand
Early History
- Kept Fires burning
- Used in warfare
- Heating
- Lighting
James Young
Uses
- Fuel oil and gas (petrol)
- Petroleum Oil
- Fertilizers
- Pesticides
- Scottish chemist
- Refined oil
- He used it for the coal refineries
Petroleum
- Discovered by James Young
- In 1847
- 1848 was the first business
Natural History
- Liquid
- found in rocks
- unrefined; used it for over 5000 years
Second Industrial Revolution and Petroleum
Beginning
Business started expanding