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THE word oil is a household one to-day, since the ingenuity of man has found a myriad uses for it. As ‘petrol’ in England, ‘gasoline’ in America, ‘essence’ in France, it serves as the source of power to propel cars for work and for play, while as a social influence it may be claimed to have altered the habits of nations. It behoves us, therefore, to know something of oil, perhaps of its history and the methods of locating it, but certainly about the methods of mining or drilling for it, its storage, transportation and refining, including those modern developments of the oil technologist and oil chemist such as cracking and hydrogenation. Even the subject of oil resources has its interest, whilst it is of great economic and strategic importance. It is to fulfil such requests that this little book has been written. The author, Dr. Gustav Egloff, who is a deservedly popular leader among petroleum technologists, is able with his pen, aided by numerous illustrations, to portray for us almost in moving picture form the oil story, and well he does it.
Earth Oil.
By Dr. Gustav Egloff. (A Century of Progress Series.) Pp. xi + 158. (Baltimore, Md.: The Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1933.) 5s. 6d.
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A., E. Earth Oil. Nature 133, 47 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133047a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133047a0