PartI1Howitallbegan!资料.pptVIP

Its History and Usefulness:  ★ Tower of Babel, the walls of Ninevah, and Solomon’s temple所罗门 The pitch and asphalt was used in the mortar灰浆 that built the Tower of  Babel, the walls of Ninevah, and Solomon’s temple. ★ Egyptians 埃及人embalmed使不朽 their dead  It was from “slime pits” 古代产沥青矿井near the Dead Sea, that the Egyptians obtained the bitumen沥青 they used to embalm 防腐their dead.  ★ The Sumerians 苏美尔人were using oil-burning lamps油灯 in 3000 B.C. ★ The Chinese were digging wells挖 井for salt water, sometime after 100 B.C.,occasionally these wells also produced natural gas.The Chinese learned  to use IT not only for heating and cooking, but also to pipe through  bamboo tubes and burn to heat the well water to hasten its evaporation.蒸发 Its History and Usefulness: ★ The Japanese were digging wells in attempts to obtain “burning water,”  By 615 A.D.(also occurring in Burma 缅甸and India印度 at about the same time)东南亚国家  ★ Men were digging shallow wells by hand to obtain oil to light their lamps, along the banks of the Caspian Sea.里海 ★ Kallinikos of Byzantium 拜占庭古罗马国家今天的伊斯坦布尔invented a primitive 原始的missile 导弹in 671 A.D., which he called Greek Fire:希腊火药 ? which the Greeks used against their enemies, the Arabs, 阿拉伯人during the siege of Constantinople;君士坦布堡 土耳其市 ? The Greeks also used petroleum in war at sea, pouring it on the water and igniting it, a fearsome weapon against wooden ships. ★ The legionnaires士兵 of ancient Rome won a battle by setting oil-soaked pigs 被油浸的猪 aflame燃烧 and driving them into the ranks 普通士兵of the approaching enemy. ★ Gradually, the use of petroleum began to spread across parts of Asia and  Europe. Three Factors Must Be Present For Any New Industry To Come About:  ★ A widely demonstrated need for the product provided, ★ A reliable and economical source of supply, ★ An established 确定的market price that would guarante