America’s first oil field, Titusville, Pennsylvania. Photograph by John Mather, c.1859. Source: Archive Photos via Getty Images
Did you know Colonel Edwin Drake, a prominent New York entrepreneur, is credited with drilling the first oil well in the United States. This historic event took place in 1859, situated at the intersection of Oil Creek and Pioneer Run, southeast of Erie. Subsequently, during the mid-1860s, numerous other wells began to dot the landscape in that vicinity. Note the signage for the intriguingly named, The Shoe & Leather Petroleum Company.
Gable and Stewart, the only two actors to have both an Academy Award and a Distinguished Flying Cross.
Cassini’s last image before entering Saturn’s atmosphere and burning up..
IWO JIMA.
Original caption. Six million cubic feet of earth were moved to lengthen this East-West runway at the Number 2 airstrip on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands, This shows part of the heavy equipment operated by 62rd SeaBees being used on the field. 15 March 1945. (NARA)