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GASOLINE BRICK 1-1-1
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The day may not be far off when a motorist could
care less about running out of gas. Theretll be
no more costly service calls to isolated spots
on the highway and the feeling of being stranded
on a busy freeway will be gone forever. Science,
as Yolanda Wood iusn of San Antonio is about
to find out, will stamp out the problem. The good
Samaritan in this dramatization is Dr. Jan Al, a
scientist at Southwest Research Institute in SanAntonio.
brick ofchees,
With what looks like a small u.ink- .. ..Dr. Al says he can refuel Miss Wood's car and he
assures her that he isn't just some kind of a nut.
Scientists at the Institute have come up with a
way to store gasoline .- or other fuel -- in
microscopic capsules that form a n leak-proof
sponge. All it takes is a little 9 ueeze and
the fuel comes out when needed. About ninety-five
percent of the song the gastank.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Gasoline brick], item, August 22, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc982322/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.