Shell and The American Landscape Museum

Table of Contents

1. Shell and The American Landscape Museum

2. How and why Shell came to America in 1912 and became part of the landscape as it grew with the petroleum industry and the nation

3. Shell's roots reaching back into the 1800’s to the Netherlands and England.

4. Real horse-drawn tank wagon which delivered Shell products in Indiana in the 1920’s.

5. Shell's 1915 Martinez, California Refinery, the first continuous process refinery in America

6. PPT Slide

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8. Shell's contributions to America's World War II effort

9. Model of Blue Water I, the first semi-submersible drilling rig

10. 2 1/2-ton underwater wellhead

11. Model of a modern seismic ship

12. PPT Slide

13. Contact Information

Email: bwakefield@prodigy.net

Home Page: http://www.houstonisd.org/isc/default.htm

Other information:
A slide show version of the photos and descriptions posted to the Shell web site, http://www2.shellus.com/museum

as originally presented to HISD principals and counselors in June, 1999.