Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev and the Emergence of the Modern Russian Petroleum Industry, 1863-1877
Author(s)
Stackenwalt, Francis M.
Abstract
Chronicles the early history of the technology and economics of exploration, recovery, extraction, and distribution of petroleum products from the oil fields in the Caucasus and eminent chemist Dmitri Mendeleev’s contribution to it. Includes a summary of his seminal comparative study The Petroleum Industry in Pennsylvania and the Caucasus.
