If Indiana Jones was real, he’d be a woman. More specifically, he’d be this woman: Aloha Wanderwell. Aloha was quite unlike anyone else of her time. An explorer, vaudevillian, filmmaker, wife, and mother, she...
Even if you’ve never so much as looked at a horse in your entire life, you’ve probably heard the term horsepower plenty of times. Whether it’s a car commercial or your friend talking about his fancy new...
In a world of social media and advertising, looks are everything—and I’m not just talking about people here. The way our food looks is super important. If it doesn’t appear fresh, we’re probably not...
Looking for some fun facts, interesting histories, or incredible stories? Humans and human stories are fascinating. Join us as we explore mankind’s earliest relationships with petroleum, industry, technology, and everything in-between.
There’s been a lot of cool movies, a lot of cool cars, and a lot of cool actors driving cool cars. We’ve seen endless lists of all the classics; whether its Connery’s Aston Martin or Steve...
In March of 1848, a Mormon merchant named Samuel Brannan confirmed the discovery of vast amounts of gold buried in the mountainous lands of Northern California to the unwitting San Francisco Bay Area public. Brannan had...
We all know the familiar idiom, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The implication being, of course, that what one individual finds valueless could be of great value to someone else: one man throws away what...
There’s no use crying over spilled milk, especially when it leads to bigger and better things—for the Gilmore Family, what started as a venture in dairy products led to becoming the largest distributor of oil products...
The whale oil myth: thanks to the free market, petroleum arrived in the nick of time to save the dwindling whales and counterbalance the whale oil scarcity. A cursory internet search will yield all kinds of results...
Announcing our red brick studio at PSC Here at Petroleum Service Company, we’re proud to say that we have recently been making a lot of changes—first with the relaunch of our new site, and now with the introduction of...
What do spiders and hydraulic presses have in common? If your immediate thought is something along the lines of crushing (because spiders are creepy crawly little monsters that most people smoosh with their shoes), I’m...
We Are Industrial Pioneers Petroleum Service Company is the pioneer of online petroleum sales. But what does that mean, exactly? If you break it down, you can start with the obvious: we sell petroleum online. But not...
This Memorial Day, Petroleum Service Company and Industrial Outpost fondly remember — and deeply thank — the many, brave men and women of the US armed forces who have died serving our country. PSC has a long...
142,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 K 10^32 K (142 nonillion kelvins) is possibly the highest known temperature, according to the standard model of particle physics (theoretically, this temperature could...
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