oil

The first major oil price crisis shocks Western industrial nations and initiates a long history of price fluctuations of this finite resource.

The oil production and related infrastructural developments severely disrupt the natural equilibrium of this West African ecosystem.

Egon Glesinger publishes his study on the global importance of wood as a raw material.

Robert Anderson, a Scottish inventor, develops a prototype vehicle that runs on rechargeable batteries, a major step towards the development of the electric car.

Public protests lead to the prohibition of oil drilling in 1970.