Where Earth Dissolves Like Snow: The Keystone Driller Story - Cole

WHERE EARTH DISSOLVES LIKE SNOW: THE KEYSTONE DRILLER STORY. 2007 by Wayne A. Cole. In 1880 Robert Magee Downie from Butler County, Pennsylvania, patented a well drilling machine. Within years the patent would change the way mankind viewed water. Thirty years later the Keystone Driller Company helped make Beaver County the leading industrialized county in the nation. The history ironically twists in 1912 from well drilling to the forerunner of America's first backhoe. This is the history, the rise and fall, the tragedies and shock of percussion from 1878 to 1959 and the Cold War, from Butler County to Beaver Falls, from Belgium to Vietnam. B&W photos, illus. 96 pages, 8.5 x 11 Laminated Softbound