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Oristaglio, Michael; Dorozynski, Alexander

 
9781590201749: A Sixth Sense
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1590201744 ISBN 13 : 9781590201749
Editeur : Overlook Books, 2009

Synopsis

The first biography of the giant of engineering and geophysics.

On March 18, 1940, French army lieutenant Henri-Georges Doll came to the U.S. embassy in Paris to give a deposition before American Vice-Consul John Wood. Europe was at war. A graduate of two of France's grandes ?coles of science, engineering, and civil service, Doll had been summoned back from the French-German border to work on a new system for detecting land mines, which the Germans were deploying on a vast scale.

Doll's deposition, however, had nothing to do with war. He had come to the embassy to testify in a court case pending in Houston, Texas-a patent lawsuit, Schlumberger Well Surveying Corportion v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company. It marked one of the first great industrial battles for control of the technology of oil and gas exploration.

One of the most prolific inventors of the twentieth century, Doll was a pioneer in the technology of "seeing underground" using electrical current, radio waves, and sound, which enabled the explosive growth of world oil production. He also directed his inventive genius toward military and medical research; but, as demonstrated in this important biography, his work had the deepest impact on commerce and engineering, which is still felt today.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The first biography of the giant of engineering and geophysics.

On March 18, 1940, French army lieutenant Henri-Georges Doll came to the U.S. embassy in Paris to give a deposition before American Vice-Consul John Wood. Europe was at war. A graduate of two of France's grandes ?coles of science, engineering, and civil service, Doll had been summoned back from the French-German border to work on a new system for detecting land mines, which the Germans were deploying on a vast scale.

Doll's deposition, however, had nothing to do with war. He had come to the embassy to testify in a court case pending in Houston, Texas-a patent lawsuit, Schlumberger Well Surveying Corportion v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company. It marked one of the first great industrial battles for control of the technology of oil and gas exploration.

One of the most prolific inventors of the twentieth century, Doll was a pioneer in the technology of "seeing underground" using electrical current, radio waves, and sound, which enabled the explosive growth of world oil production. He also directed his inventive genius toward military and medical research; but, as demonstrated in this important biography, his work had the deepest impact on commerce and engineering, which is still felt today.

Biographie de l'auteur

Michael Oristaglio, a geophysicist, has worked as a research scientists and manager in the oil industry for the past 25 years. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut. Alexander Dorozynski is a science journalist and author. He has written biographies on Nobel-prize winning Soviet physicist Lev Landau and on Bolshevik leader Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov (Lenin). He lives in Madeira, Portugal, and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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Éditeur
Overlook Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1590201744
ISBN 13 
9781590201749
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
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