Reel Number: 221097-43
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1939
Country: USA
Location: Chicago,Illinois
TC Begins: 10:38:45
TC Ends: 10:39:27
Duration: 00:00:42
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Pre-WWII - 1939, Inventions: World-Wide News Events: Chicago, Ill., Petroleum Alternative Dr. F.W. Goodwin of the Armour Institute demonstrates production of liquid coal as petroleum alternative in laboratory. Car gas tank filled w/ liquid coal; side shot car w/ sign mounted on roof ‘This Car Is Being Operated On “Liquid Coal”’ outside building marked ‘Research Foundation’. Traveling shots of car along street. Fossil Fuels; Inventions; Technology; Ecology; Oddities; 1930s; Alternate Energy; Conservation; Natural Resources;