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TO-DAY, when petroleum with its vast range of derivatives is regarded as indispensable to the welfare of man, it is wholesome to be reminded of the salient factors which gradually extended its usefulness during the course of some five thousand years. It is equally salutary to have delineated handicaps of lack of knowledge, apparatus and facilities, which nevertheless were minimised by the ingenuity of ancient peoples who employed bitumen for a variety of purposes still recognised to-day.
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History of Bitumen. Nature 135, 845 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135845a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135845a0