Empresario

Edwin Drake

1819 - 1880

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Edwin Laurentine "Coronel" Drake (Greenville, Nueva York; 29 de marzo de 1819-Bethlehem, Pensilvania; 9 de noviembre de 1880) fue un perforador de petróleo de los Estados Unidos a quien se le atribuye popularmente el haber "descubierto" el petróleo. En 1859, un hombre le dijo a Drake que su máquina para extraer el petróleo nunca funcionaría.​ Así, el 27 de agosto de 1859, en un pozo que fue construido por Drake en Oil Creek, cerca de Titusville, condado de Crawford, Pensilvania, se encontró petróleo.​ Desde entonces, dicho día se conoce como el Día de Drake. Aunque el petróleo era conocido con anterioridad a este hecho, no estaba disponible en grandes cantidades suficientes para ser útil. De acuerdo con el libro de Ida Tarbell (1904) The History of Standard Oil (La Historia de Standard Oil), el pozo de petróleo no fue una idea de Drake, sino de su empleador, George Bissell. Leer más en Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Drake is the 401st most popular empresario (down from 332nd in 2024), the 5,047th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,754th in 2019) and the 126th most popular American Empresario.

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Among Empresarios

Among empresarios, Edwin Drake ranks 401 out of 847. Before him are Rina Zaripova, Robert Mercer, Steve Jackson, Ida Straus, Howard Schultz, and Peter Lynch. After him are Roy E. Disney, John Cockerill, Elisabeth Abegg, Mikhail Prokhorov, Gerard Philips, and Christophe de Margerie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Edwin Drake ranks 64. Before him are Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Panteleimon Kulish, Charles Kingsley, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Butrus al-Bustani, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. After him are Théodore Gouvy, James Russell Lowell, Władysław Taczanowski, Nicolae Bălcescu, Lucile Grahn, and Abe Masahiro. Among people deceased in 1880, Edwin Drake ranks 43. Before him are Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Benjamin Peirce, Edmond Albius, Arthur Morin, and Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra. After him are Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Nils Johan Andersson, and Christian August Friedrich Peters.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin Drake ranks 5,047 out of 20,380. Before him are Albert Brooks (1947), Alexander H. Stephens (1812), Margaret Sullavan (1909), Peggy Whitson (1960), Susan Brownmiller (1935), and Walter Bedell Smith (1895). After him are Steve James (1952), Roy E. Disney (1930), Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Don Adams (1923), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), and Eve Arnold (1912).

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Among Empresarios In United States

Among empresarios born in United States, Edwin Drake ranks 126. Before him are Arnold Rothstein (1882), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Sylvia Beach (1887), Robert Mercer (1946), Howard Schultz (1953), and Peter Lynch (1944). After him are Roy E. Disney (1930), Allen Klein (1931), Alan Lomax (1915), Robert Monroe (1915), John Elkann (1976), and Reed Hastings (1960).

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