And some genius said you may know this story. What is this stuff that comes out of the ground in pennsylvania and they were fined into kerosene and kerosene replaced whale oil but by the 1890s when the lightbulb came along and cities were switching rapidly to electric light the oil industry with saying what are we going to do . They have this waste product that they couldnt use that they were dumping in the river at night to get rid of it because it was useless and they had to find a place to put it. Fortunately the automobile came along just in time and save the oil industry. So they use this waste product and refineries. There are lots of stories. They havent been told as usual. The last natural gas as an industry book was published in 1938. So im just having great fun beginning this work which im sure you will enjoy. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. [applause] Richard Rhodes will be outside at the signing desk. The books are still for sale in the Welcome Center so come and
It. Theres still shells of mature that havent been dug up. For that matter, i dont know if you know but at the National Archives in washington theres a whole roomful of any scrips, medical documents in particular, from the American Civil War that have never been opened. They are in brown paper wrappers tied with a ribbon, and no one is ever looked at them for 150 years, or whatever it is. I mean i have of course the First World War was extraordinary Human Experience on many levels, but i think i kind of missed my window. Im working right now on a book about, another book of course. Thats how it make a living. Im working on a book about what sounds like the unpromising subject of energy transitions. I will eventually be writing about oil. Im sure i will come back to dallas more than once, but right now im writing about elizabethan england when they ran out of trees close enough the luggage be able to afford to transport them. And they had to switch to coal. And they just hated coal. The
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“The Dressmaker” by Kate Alcott is the story of Tess who, in 1912, is hired by famous gown designer Lucile to be her servant and to go on the Titanic from England to America.