THE HISTORY OF GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING

Volume One

George Elliott Sweet

Table of Content
Acknowledgment of Sources
PART ONE - MARCH OF THE OIL DERRICKS
Chapter 1 - Ancient Times to the Drake Well
Chapter 2 - Pennsylvania Supreme to 1895
PART TWO -- LEADERS IN PETROLEUM
Chapter 3 - Ohio
Chapter 4 - Twentieth Century in Brief
PART THREE - SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS OF EARTH SCIENCE
Chapter 5 - Prior to the Year 1840
Chapter 6 - 1840 to 1920
Chapter 7 - 1920 to the Present
PART FOUR - VISCOUNT COWDRAY
Chapter 8 - The Hudson Tunnel
Chapter 9 - Engineering Conquest of Mexico
Chapter 10 - World Wide Works
Chapter 11 - Mexican Eagle Oil Company
Chapter 12 - War Ends; Geophysics Begins
PART FIVE - TWIN PEAKS OF EARTH SCIENCE
Chapter 13 - The Two Everettes
Chapter 14 - Wallace Everette Pratt
PART SIX - DREAMS AND DOODLEBUGS
Chapter 15 - Extra-Sensory Perception New
Chapter 16 - Laws of Nature and the Little Black Box
PART SEVEN - REGINALD FES SENDEN
Chapter 17 - Electrical Engineer and College Professor
Chapter 18 - Radio and Sound Transmission
PART EIGHT - SOUND RANGING IN WORLD WAR ONE
Chapter 19 - Sir Lawrence Bragg
Chapter 20 - Bazzoni and the Pennsylvanians
PART NINE - 1921
Chapter 21 - Haseman, Karcher Eckhardt and McCollum
Chapter 22 - The Geological Engineering Company

PART TEN - MARLAND AND MINTROP
Chapter 23 - Marland, the Man
Chapter 24 - Marland and Earth Science
Chapter 25 - The Last FiveYears of the Marland Oil Company
Chapter 26 - Life of Mintrop
PART ELEVEN - DE GOLYER
Chapter 27 - The Legend of Mr. De
Chapter 28 - The Artist as a Young Man
Chapter 29 - The 1910s
Chapter 30 - Awards, Libraries and the Last Twenty Years
PART TWELVE - GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH CORPORATION
Chapter 31 - The Laboratory
Chapter 32 - The First Year
Chapter 33 - Personal Factors, 1926-1927
Chapter 34 - East Texas, New Mexico and West Texas
Chapter 35 - McDermottfs Party Expands into a Gulf Quartet
Chapter 36 - Oklahoma and Reflections
Chapter 37 - The Power Struggle
PART THIRTEEN - PURE
Chapter 38 - Acquisition by Purehase
Chapter 39 - Acquisition Through Earth Science
PART FOURTEEN -- FROM ALLIGATOR TO AUSTRALLA
Chapter 40 - The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company
Chapter 41 - The Ultimate in Exploration
Chapter 42 - The Texas Company Deal and How It Grew
Chapter 43 - Australia
PART FIFTEEN - DOUBLE TROUBLE
Chapter 44 - Tragedy
Chapter 45 - Pressure
PART SIXTEEN -- UNION OlL OF CALIFORNIA
Chapter 46 - Luck
Chapter 47 - Fortitude
PART SEVENTEEN -- THREE LETTERS AND A PACKAGE
Chapter 48 - Letter from Salvatori to Jones
Chapter 49 - Letter from van der Gracht to Hyde
Chapter 50 - Letter from Geussenhainer to Sweet
Chapter 51 - From W. T. Bornfs "Instrumentation"

PART EIGHTEEN - HUHBLE
Chapter 52 - Mr. Pratt at the Helm
Chapter 53 - Activity Through 1929
Chapter 54 - Highlights from 1930 to 1960
PART NINETEEN -- THE AMERADA STORY
Chapter 55 - Sidney Powers and the Sidney Powers Medal
Chapter 56 - The First Five Years
Chapter 57 - The Executives
Chapter 58 - Geophysical Discoveries - Weatherby,
Chapter 59 - Radler-Hall and Denison
Chapter 60 - The Amerada Tree