OCR Text |
Show Noah Used Oil Less than 80 years ago the first of the modern oil wells was sunk in Pennsylvania, and most of us are under the impression that the use of petroleum is quite a modern industry. Not a bit of it! Noah used it in the form of raw asphalt to make the Ark watertight; those mysterious people of old, the Sumerians, made use of it in painting paint-ing and sculpture; stranger still, Nebuchadnezzar made a modern tarred road of broken brick and asphalt. Later on we read of Marco Polo using petroleum during dur-ing his Asiatic travels to cure his camels of mange. The modern uses of petroleum are simply endless. Blacking for shoes, insecticides, sealing wax, lipsticl, dozens of balms and oint-ments-these are a few of the lesser less-er known uses of earth oil. As for asphalt, millions of tons are used yearly for making roads, tennis-courts, tennis-courts, playgrounds, roofing felts, paints, and varnishes. |