Though he drilled only three oil wells in his lifetime, Edwin Drake (1819-1880) is known as the "Father of the Petroleum Industry" because the technology he devised to drill the first commercial oil well in the United States revolutionized how crude...

1819-1880 American petroleum engineer who pioneered a new method of oil drilling. In his early years, Drake was a jack-of-all-trades, working as a hotel clerk, railway express agent, and conductor before finding a position with a Pennsylvania oil...

In 1859, Edwin L. ("Colonel") Drake (1819-1880) helped dig the world's first petroleum well. This launched the era of relatively cheap and abundant energy. In a very short time, petroleum was powering the industrial world in the...

Edwin Laurentine Drake (March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880), also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United...

Robert Edwin Drake, 82, an intelligence analyst who spent 28 years with the National Security Agency before retiring in 1980 after two years as deputy director, died Jan. 12 at his home in Annapolis. He had congestive heart failure. Starting in 1949, Mr....

CHICAGO JAMES DRAKE RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY Like a latter-day Bernini lost in the deserts of the American Southwest, James Drake, in his recent work, explores the stark and savage milieu of West Texas while assembling a romanticized allegorical overview of his...