What is "...Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."?
100
In this year, Veracruz had 58 oil companies, 16 refineries, 24 law firms, 6 bakeries, 77 liquor stores and nearly 10 x 104 100,000 people.
When is 1921?
100
This was the location of the first big American oil strike.
What is Spindletop, Texas?
200
The chainsaw gave men the ability to cut down trees this much faster than with axes and saws.
What is 100 to 10 x 10 2 1000 times faster?
200
This would happen to any country that did not deploy copious amounts of energy by 1950.
What is poverty?
200
The Veracruzan Minister of the Interior said this.
Who said "the oil business ruined the land."?
200
Between this year and this year, the US switched to oil as a main energy source.
What are 1910 and 1950?
200
In this year, the Mexican oil production peaked.
What is 1921?
300
Theodore Roosevelt decided to create this service to rationalize the use of the country's remaining timber.
What is the national forest service?
300
Hard-rock drilling for oil began here.
Where is Pennsylvania?
300
A book with the quote "Men are too eager to tread underfoot what the have once too much feared."
What is De Rerum Natura written by Lucretius?
300
In this year the world's economy became based of non-muscular energy.
What is important about 1820?
300
in the end of the 19th century to the begginning of the 20th century, crude oil was scarcely used. Its main purpose was in this form powering this item.
What is kerosene fuel used to power lamps?
400
For this thing, the author says, future millennia will remember the twentieth century for.
What are nuclear reactors?
400
The oil drilling in the Niger Delta spoiled these people's fisheries and farms.
Who are the Ogoni?
400
Lord Curizon said this.
Who said "The Allies floated to victory on a wave of oil."?
400
The motown cluster predominated from this year to this year.
What are the 1940s to the 1990s?
400
Oil, hydroelectricity, and this new energy technology joined coal, wind, and muscles in powering the 20th century.
What is nuclear fission?
500
In 1858 this tool had its first patent, in 1917 this tool was first manufactured.
What is the chainsaw?
500
The Exxon Valdez spill occurred here in this year.
Where is the Alaskan coast in 1989?
500
This man said "the most original...history book I have read this year."
Who is Eric Hobsbawn?
500
This book by Charles Dickens was written in 1854.
What is the novel Hard Times?
500
Canada used these two tools to cut all pulpwood up until about 1950.