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The Symmetry of Oil (1927)

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Continuing a read of the January-June 1927 volume of Popular Mechanics I found this lovely little data visualization–it has a certain irresistible quality to it, perhaps owing to its symmetry. In any event, I just wanted to post it here, before I closed the book and lost the image to memory:

Oil fiekd cross section657

 

 

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