Spindletop Hill turned out to be the surface expression of an underground salt dome, around which the oil accumulated.

Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States.

Sour Lake became a short-lived boomtown with the discovery of oil in 1901, shortly after oil was found at the nearby Spindletop salt dome.

The oil discovery was located on Spindletop salt dome in South Beaumont, the boomtown that sprung up around the well was known as Gladys City.

A low rumbling sound came from underground, and then, with a force that shot 6 tons of 4-inch ( 100 mm ) diameter pipe out over the top of the derrick, knocking off the crown block, the Lucas Gusher roared in and the Spindletop oil field was born.

The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

Spindletop was the largest gusher the world had seen and catapulted Beaumont into an oil-fueled boomtown.

Among those drilling at Spindletop was W. Scott Heywood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, who in 1901 made the first oil discovery in nearby Jeff Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana.

Output from Spindletop peaked at around just after it was discovered and then started to decline.

The first oil was produced a couple years after the famous Spindletop discovery in Beaumont, Texas.

By 1901, the company was incorporated in New Jersey as Sun Company and turned its interest to the new Spindletop field in Texas.

After receiving a law degree from the University of Mississippi in 1900, he practiced law for three months at Clarksdale, Mississippi, before moving to Beaumont, Texas, when oil was discovered at the Spindletop oilfield.

Lamar's birth was in large part due to the demand for technically trained individuals in the area, after the 1901 Spindletop oil discovery, making Beaumont, Texas one of the most heavily industrialized areas of the United States.

Spindletop became the focus of frenzied drilling ; oil production from the field peaked in 1902 at, but by 1905 production had declined 90 % from the peak.

The museum features an oil derrick and many reconstructed Gladys City building interiors furnished with authentic artifacts from the Spindletop boomtown period.

The oil discovery at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas in 1901 prompted a new industry to be developed in Texas ; the oil trade would transform Houston, the railroad hub of east Texas, from a smaller town into a large city.

The " golden " refers to the wealth that came from the Spindletop oil strike near Beaumont in 1901.

The focus is not surprising given the birth of the modern petroleum industry took place at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas, only 80 miles from Vinson & Elkins ' initial office in Houston.

* Spindletop: The Original Salt Dome – World Energy Magazine Vol.

Anthony Francis Lucas, an experienced mining engineer and salt driller, drilled a well to find oil at Spindletop Hill.

The Spindletop gusher started serious oil exploration of the Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana, an area that had previously been dismissed by oil men.

* 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

Gulf Oil and Texaco, now part of Chevron Corporation, were formed to develop production at Spindletop.

The strike at Spindletop represented a turning point for Texas and the United States ; no oil field in the world had ever been so productive.

There had long been suspicions that oil might be under " Spindletop Hill.

In August 1892, George W. O ' Brien, George W. Carroll, Pattillo Higgins and others formed the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company to do exploratory drilling on Spindletop Hill.

Production at Spindletop began to decline rapidly after 1902, and the wells produced only by 1904.

Spindletop continued as a productive source of oil until about 1936.

In 1976 Lamar University dedicated the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum to preserve the history of the Spindletop oil gusher era in Beaumont.

The discovery of petroleum at nearby Spindletop led to the river basin becoming the scene of widespread oil drilling.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

The courthouse was a white-stucco building minus the customary dome.

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

Although the geodesic dome had been created some 30 years earlier by Dr. Walther Bauersfeld, Fuller was awarded United States patents.

His first " continuous tension – discontinuous compression " geodesic dome ( full sphere in this case ) was constructed at the University of Oregon Architecture School in 1959 with the help of students.

" Later in his SIU tenure, Fuller was also a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville, where he designed the dome for the campus Religious Center.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.

A " sold " banner was hung on front of the MIT dome building and a " Welcome to Caltech East: School of the Humanities " banner over the Massachusetts Avenue Entrance.

The dome of the rotunda was completed by the end of the 4th century.

The current dome dates from 1870, although it was restored during 1994 – 1997, as part of extensive modern renovations to the church, which have been ongoing since 1959.

The stadium was famous for its hole-in-the-roof dome.

Buckminsterfullerene ( C < sub > 60 </ sub >) was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, a noted architectural modeler who popularized the geodesic dome.

Since buckminsterfullerenes have a shape similar to that sort of dome, the name was thought appropriate.

The dome, with a diameter of was the largest in the world when built and used an ingenious bearing device: rather than running on wheels or rollers, it was supported by a ring-shaped hollow girder floating in a circular trough containing a solution of magnesium chloride in water.

The dome of the main city, the Time Lord capital, the Capitol, was shattered and dozens of Dalek saucers were crashed on the plains below.

For example, when MIT students surreptitiously put a fake police car atop the dome on MIT's Building 10, that was a hack in this sense, and the students involved were therefore hackers.

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).