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1859 was an important year in the oil industry.  Edwin Drake and George Bissell introduced the first successful oil drilling rig on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. It was also the year that Jean-Joseph Étienne Lenoir began producing his single-cylinder two-stroke internal combustion engine.  While Lenoir’s original engine burned a mixture of coal gas, it set the stage for development of a gasoline powered engine in the years to come.What do the first oil rig