no , Alexander Graham Bell was the one to invent it around 1875.
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Edwin Drake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake , was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States....
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Drake worked a succession of jobs in the Midwest and East after leaving the family farm at age 19, becoming a conductor for the New York & New Haven Railroad (1850-57). In the late 1850s he bought stock in George Bissell's Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, and in 1857 (taking advantage of his conductor's job to travel...
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www.virtualvermont.com/history/edrake.html
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Dan Bradley, Learning Support...
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www2.yk.psu.edu/~mer7/inventors.htm
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John A. and Hiram Abial Pitts invent a machine that automatically threshes and separates grain from chaff, ... Drilling at Titusville, PA, "Colonel" Edwin Drake, strikes oil at a depth of 69.5 feet. Prior to that, oil, which had been used mostly as a lubricant and lamp fuel, had been obtained only at places where it seeped...
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Browse for a different Invention or Inventor ... George Westinghouse was a visionary of technology and business, whose ideas transformed the safety and services of the American railroad and electricity industries. ... Born in Central Bridge, New York, in 1846, Westinghouse moved with his family to nearby Schenectady when he...
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web.mit.edu/invent/iow/westinghouse.html
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Ed Drake was a well driller in Titusville. He was drilling deep and hit black water, thus inventing oil. Some guy named Pennz, fascinated with this new discovery, accidentally built a cracking tower while putting up his CB radio antenna , invented gasoline and formed a company to ... Edison went on to invent the light bulb,
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A steam engine whistle calls you to the replica of Edwin Drake's 1859 engine house, where oil from the famous well flows into a "never filling" barrel. Follow squeaking rod lines to learn how pioneer oil workers used one engine to pump many wells.
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www.drakewell.org/
www.drakewell.org/
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Edwin Laurentine Drake was born in Greenville, Greene County, New York on March 29, 1819. After leaving the family farm at the age of 19, Drake held a variety of jobs across the midwest and eastern United States.
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www.thelampworks.com/lw_edwin_drake.htm
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