This document discusses the history and development of the oil industry and how it led to modern innovations. It traces the early use of whale oil for lighting and how demand outpaced supply, driving the search for alternatives. The development of the petroleum industry is covered, from early distillations of crude oil in the 1840s, to drilling for oil in 1859 and the founding of Standard Oil in 1870. It also discusses how innovations in electricity, the internal combustion engine, and jet engines were enabled by access to oil and its refined products. Overall it shows how the combination of different types of capital, including financial, physical, human, and intellectual capital, along with cultural and entrepreneurial influences, led to wealth creation through new innovations over
3. 1. Where is the iPhone made?
2. Can you drop an exam in this class?
3. What percentage score do you have to earn in order to get a C+
4. What day is our first exam?
5. Is scarcity the same thing as poverty?
6. How many hours a week will you invest on homework for this class?
7. What does it mean to optimize your tradeoffs?
8. What percent of the working population were farmers in the U.S. in 1800?
9. What is the ultimate resource?
10. How many people were on the planet in 1800?
11. According to Angus Maddison, when did the world change?
12. Where was the iPhone designed ( trick question)
13. Who is Malcom McLean (Google question)
6. What does it cost to ship an iPhone from China to the U.S.?
54¢
450,000 iPhones cost about $242,000 to charter
Fuel accounting for more than half the expense. 44,700 gallons
10. Two cameras, a video recorder,
a digital compass, a satellite-
navigation system, a barometer,
a fingerprint scanner, a high-
resolution color display, an LED
flashlight, touch sensors, a
stereo system, a motion sensor/
game controller, encryption
circuits, an array of radio
transmitters that connect via
WiFi, Bluetooth and near-field
communication bands, and,
last and also least, the guts of a
cellular telephone.
11. How many
miles does
an iPhone
travel before
you get it?
500,000 miles
https://www.wired.com/2016/04/iphones-500000-mile-journey-pocket/
24. BISSELL REPORT
Your company have in their
possession a raw material from
which, by simple and not
expensive process, they may
manufacture very valuable
products.
It is worthy of note that my
experiments prove that nearly
the whole of the raw product
may be manufactured without
waste, and this solely by a well-
directed process which is in
practice in one of the most
simple of all chemical
processes.”Professor Benjamin Sillman
Yale College
36. At first, his submission
is declined as being "not
original", however, after
an appeal, a patent is
granted on February 28,
1892.
Has 15 years of
protection
Receives patents in
Germany, United States,
and England
Financial Capital
Maschinefabrik Augsburg
37. John D. Rockefeller
Buys first refinery
1865
Starts Standard Oil
1870
Controls 90% of
U.S. oil market
1890
38. Standard Oil
Blue Barrel of Oil
bbl
42 U.S. gallons
159 liters
allow for
evaporation and
leakage to 40 gallons