Railway, Technology, Oil, Petroleum, Caspian Sea, Baku, Nobel
Upper image: "Petroleum-Niederlage in Baku"
Lower image: "Eine Erdoelquelle in Baku"
Two wood engravings on a page of text about early oil exploration by Ludwig Nobel and the oil fields on the Caspian Sea. Published ca 1880.
Original antique print
On the reverse side is unrelated text. Overall light natural age toning.
Page size: 28 x 20 cm (11 x 7.8")
Text:
Petroleum defeat in Bahu.
the first to win their land from tautafish naphtha betroleum, with the aim of auctioning off their land by the government, Roforem built up immense raphthoterrains, and not wanting to let the weapons pouring out of the earth be dissatisfied, he set up his factory near the ancient temple of Zoroaster, and the gases yielding from earthen fields were used to pickle the staffs of the refineries. Now the Fabrit approved a means of heating that did nothing, but the values were 17 shipyards from the sea and had no weapons. I soon approached, and Stoforem proceeded very cautiously with over investment, because bi Gaje, if one had it for nothing, were also completely worthless. It soon turned out to be an uncomfortable excess for Gabrit. During the deitil lation, the weeds remained, which gave the most wonderful fuel and which one did not know how to use 17 versts from the port. The often bes transports were, however, so valuable that they would have devoured the proceeds. In this way the stoforew died in their own Del, and via Webante, using the eternal fires as a tortoise-free ice material brought about its muin.
The desperate situation of the naphtha industry was first discovered by the Swedish Wajdinenbauer Ludwig Robel, a bender of Alfred Nobel, the Dumamit inventor, and this miserable enterprise and creative punishment very soon found the right means to overcome all obstacles , In the stautajus he soon came to the right conclusion that the extraction of cheap naphtha was of almost secondary importance, since this raw material was in superlative form and was available at real ridiculous prices. The second tough task lay in the procurement of cheap means of transport, and each he solved in such a brilliant way that he became the savior of Naphthalland. In 1875, Ludwig Nobel, with a capital of nearly two million rubles, set up the "Naphtha Broductions Gesellschaft der Gebrüder Robel". First he connected fine oil sources, which were about 12 bursts from the port, by breaking iron pipes with Batu Huge iron reservoirs and from these through the tubes located freely after beu in Batu purification plants, where it is raf jinint.Dant of those construction pipes are completely removed for the first transport, and one found the naphtha and ben large reservoirs as needed Since the lepteren are now at the port, the betroleum can be immediately and without significant soften on the
transfer ships. Another obstacle, and the greatest of all, to petroleum reporting was overpacking
burch faffer. The ingenious Swede made them completely dispensable. He had iron steamers built in Sweden, which, apart from the ship's engine and a few small houses, contained only large baffins for taking in the refined betroleum. From the reservoirs of the refinery located at the port, the betroleum was now flowed into the steamers and taken with them across the Aspian Sea to Astrakhan and from there up the Volga to Barusin, that important railway junction for Saraton, where the Bas Del by locomotive transported further north and west. In order to be able to carry out the loading as simply as possible, Nobel built special iron reservoirs in Barnain, into which the hold of the incoming steamer is emptied by a steam pump. From the central reservoirs au Barnain the betroleum is banned in those with cifernen. Rejected various wagons. These railway wagons will soon be available. accordingly built and advertised to large betroleum processions. The transfer, via coloffal glass bags from the steamers to the central baffins and from beef to beef-like railway carriages, is carried out so easily with the washes, which are escorted by a few passengers, that foreign visitors would have to consider the enormous installations foolish if they did not hear the noise of the quiet working steam pump heard, which the breathing
resembles a scratch. Of course, the running of the new system required an enormous expenditure of capital and labor to Durdy. At present, folossal pipelines in Bafu fede connect the naphtha wells to the port refineries. The company yips a wide terrain to Balathani, on which 45 cells are in operation. Charles Marvin, the well-known English newspaper correspondent, relates in fine writing about Batu that the Nobel brothers had in the last year opened a spring which rose 200 feet into the air and in 42 days threw up about 150,000,000 liters of naphtha. All efforts to close off the source again, whose flow could not be collected, proved to be futile in the face of the mighty Delstahl. The refineries of the company in Baku are now capable of supplying 500,000 Gentners of purified betroleum per month. However, the works have only been working for eight months a year since the Volga is closed to shipping in winter.
The increase in the means of transport in the form of weapon products is quite astounding. In 1878 the first betroleum fighter of the Robel brothers, which bore the snazzy name "Zoroafter
