Searching For Oil On The Isle Of Wight.A charge of gelegnite being rammed into the hole drilled by the mobile derrick. The charge is fired from the lorry in the background. Geophones pick up the reflected shocks from the earth's strata and relays them to the mobile laboratory, where they are recorded. March 9, 1950.
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