Using New Vocabulary
Test your understanding of the words in the prereading exercise by answering the following questions about the article. 1. As you know, gasoline was considered to be a by-product in the manufacture of kerosene. What other by-products of crude oil were known at that time?
The History of Oil What other engineers-inventors besides Henry Ford and Elwood Haynes do you know who were also tinkering with a new kind of engine in the 19-th century? What kind of engine did they develop? In what other countries besides the U.S. were geologists busy tracking down petroleum in the 19-th century? Do you know oil fields and gas deposits discovered in Ukraine which still are oil and gas producing ones? What main gas pipelines run through the Carpathian Mountains and bring gas to many countries of the West Europe?
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