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What was the diameter of that first oil pipe? Drake clearly was repurposing a technology that already existed... what was the pipe's original purpose?
by gregw2 7y ago
What was the diameter of that first oil pipe? Drake clearly was repurposing a technology that already existed... what was the pipe's original purpose?
- jacobush 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Well only says cast iron. Maybe sewer pipe, Pennsylvania was early using that: http://www.sewerhistory.org/photosgraphics/pipes-ancientearly-types/ http://www.sewerhistory.org/photosgraphics/pipes-ancientearl...
- bookofjoe 7y ago>Drake used copper pipe two or three inches in diameter and in sections 12 to 14 feet long. https://ethw.org/Beginnings_of_the_Oil_and_Gas_Industry https://ethw.org/Beginnings_of_the_Oil_and_Gas_Industry
- jacobush 7y agoI'm not saying he didn't use copper pipe for the first well, but one could imagine he used cast iron pipe in the first well. If he did, my layman understanding is that copper pipe must be much more less likely to break, than cast iron pipe. (Cast iron is pretty brittle.)