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Oilfield Engine. 1st Finder Certificate! LbNA #19216 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 12, 2005
Location:
City:Bartlesville
County:Washington
State:Oklahoma
Boxes:1
Found by: Pickle
Last found:Feb 1, 2006
Status:Faaaaaa
Last edited:Nov 12, 2005
The 1895 discovery of oil underground at Titusville, Pa., required engines to drive drills and pump oil, but steam engines proved costly to operate. In 1898, Dr. Edwin J. Fithian and John Carruthers formed the Bessemer Gas Engine Company and produced kits to convert steam engines into the new internal combustion engines, fueled with oil-field natural gas. This illustrates the transition to internal combustion and how machine life can be extended by clever adaptation of newer technology to save cost and resources.

This box is located near a Bessemer engine carcass on Bartlesville's Pathfinder Parkway pedestrian trail. Start at the intersection of Adams and Shawnee, and drive south as far as the street goes. You will pass 16th street, drive behind the high school football stadium on the right, and a large parking lot and practice field on the left.

After you pass the large paved parking lot, drive into the small gravel lot on your left and locate the pedstrian entrance to the trail. After you enter the trail, walk past the bench under the small shelter on your right. As you approach the fork in the path, look in the woods to your left for the Bessemer relic. Find the letterbox under a scrap of corrugated sheet metal just to the right (east) of the big engine with two large wheels.

Stamp in and drop me a line at kevbennett@sbcglobal.net. Happy hunting!