Who was the first fracker?
Huh? You are so wrong. From the 1870’s in Pennsylvania drillers found that well production dropped quickly after the initial drilling was complete. So they tried lots of things to stimulate things. One was dropping a bomb of nitro glycerin down the hole. There are well documented reports of this causing all kinds of havoc including blowing up the backwoods chemists when they were preparing this volatile compound. That’s real fracking!