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Record W4408423422 · doi:10.70359/bhc2000v025p067

Response to the first oil well in the world

2000· article· en· W4408423422 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Martin D. Saltzman

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin for the history of chemistry · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOil wellPetroleum engineeringGeology

Abstract

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I am grateful to Fathi Habashi for pointing out that the first oil well was not the one drilled by Edward Drake on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, as is the common perception.In writing this paper my major concern was with the role that chemistry played in the realization of this venture.Benjamin Silliman Jr., who provided the analyses of the oil seeps, showed that by fractional distillation a product equivalent to the kerosene then being made by destructive distillation of coal could be obtained.It must be remembered that by 1858 the kerosene for lighting was being produced in large quantities by the processes developed by the Canadian Abraham Gesner and the Scot James Young.The Canadian well produced so little crude oil that it gained modest significance as a source of kerosene.It is the vast amount of crude oil that was found in Pennsylvania that led to the decline of the coal oil industry and the rise of the extraction of oil as a major industry in the United States initially and very soon thereafter in other parts of the world.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.666
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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