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The Schlumberger Adventure
by Anne Gruner Schlumberger
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0668056444
- ISBN 13
- 9780668056441
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: ARCO Publishing, 1982 ARCO Publishing, New York. 1982. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($22.50); scattered bumping to panels. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and oil derrek in gilt on front board. 152 p 8vo. Written by the daughter of Conrad, she gives the human side of the story of Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger, the inventors of electrical oil prospecting. Starting in a basement in Paris the potentiometer was developed and perfected at Pechelbronn, France's only oil field. Starting in 1919 she tells of the journey for her father and uncle and other geological researchers who worked in remote areas of the world to find oil with Schlumberger becoming a multinational corporation all based on a modest little black box that evolved into Aladdin's lamp. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005938
- Title
- The Schlumberger Adventure
- Author
- Anne Gruner Schlumberger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0668056444
- ISBN 13
- 9780668056441
- Publisher
- ARCO Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- oil prospecting, Schlumberger, oil drilling, electrical oil prospecting, oil logs, Pechelbronn, Henri Doll, Conrad Schlumberger, Marcel Schlumberger, Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation, Schlumberger Electrical Prospecting Corporation, electrical well
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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