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Vacuum Oil was founded in 1866 by Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond Everest, of Rochester, New York. Lubricating oil was an accidental discovery; while attempting to distill kerosene, Everest noted the residue from the extraction was suitable as a lubricant.
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- Pike, New York
- Pike, Wyoming County, New York, United States
- April 11, 1830
Vacuum Oil was founded in 1866 by Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond Everest of Rochester, New York state. The lubrication oil was an accidental discovery while attempting to distil kerosene Everest noted that the residue from the extraction was suitable as a lubricant.
- 19Th-Century Precursors
- Regrouping Following The Antitrust Act
- Postwar Rise in Demand
- The Oil Crisis of The 1970s
- Challenges in The 1990s
- Principal Subsidiaries
- Further Reading
Of Mobil’s two progenitors, Socony was the larger and more generalized oil company, while Vacuum’s expertise lay in the production of high-quality machine lubricants. Vacuum got its start in 1866 when Matthew Ewing, a carpenter and part-time inventor in Rochester, New York, devised a new method of distilling kerosene from oil using a vacuum. The pr...
By the time of the dissolution of Standard in 1911, Socony had established its position in Europe and Africa and built a thriving business in Asia as well. China became an important market for Socony. Socony eventually built a network of subsidiaries from Japan to Turkey that by 1910 was handling nearly 50 percent of the kerosene sold in Asia. In t...
In the United States a new culture based on the automobile and abundant supplies of cheap gasoline spread the boundaries of cities and built a nationwide system of interstate highways. SV’s long use of its Mobil trade names and flying red horse logo had made these symbols known around the country, and in 1955 the company capitalized on this by chan...
During the 1960s Mobil Oil’s nine percent annual increase in net income was the best of all major oil companies, and it continued as a major supplier of natural gas and oil to the world’s two fastest-growing economies, West Germany and Japan. In 1973, however, OPEC placed an embargo on oil shipments to the United States for six months and began gra...
World events in the early 1990s had contradictory repercussions for Mobil and the petroleum industry as a whole. The Persian Gulf War in particular, and instability in the Middle East in general, heightened the importance of Mobil’s carefully cultivated friendship with Saudi Arabia. But a recession in the United States and the worldwide economic sl...
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Matthew Ewing (January 10, 1815 – 1874) was an American carpenter and inventor. He is known as the cofounder of the Vacuum Oil Company with business partner Hiram Bond Everest.
Hiram Bond Everest (April 11, 1830 – March 5, 1913) was an American businessman, investor, inventor and farmer. This article needs additional citations for verification . ( June 2017 )
Hiram Bond Everest (April 11, 1830 – March 5, 1913) was an American businessman, investor, inventor and farmer. Biography. Hiram Bond Everest was born in Pike, New York on April 11, 1830. He moved to Wisconsin around age 18 to work as a teacher of science until 1853, when he moved to Rochester, New York.
