some of the miracles of petroleum are familiar to us all we know for instance that oil made possible one of the greatest inventions of history the internal combustion engine which gave us mastery over the air meant mass about the turn of the century something new was added to the american scene and the oil business became a potent factor in the nation's new economy the horseless carriage which made its appearance of motoring was  brave in those days service facilities were primitive roads were rough the automobile was considered less dependable than the horse but the motor car was here to stay and in a surprisingly short time it ceased to be a bad game and that the americans were on the way to owning millions of cars driving billions of miles a year  day fast laboratories are working hand in hand with giant refineries this one alone lawyers more than a thousand persons represent an investment in research facilities of more than four million dollars here scientists delve into the unknown and the never ending quest brought back men and women graduates of the world's greatest university and they carry on their research and experimentation with the aid of the most modern scientific equipment available already they have discovered that a barrel of crude oil will yield more than a thousand products products quite different from the more familiar ones used in automobiles and other mechanisms today it difficult for you to look in any direction without seeing something made possible or made better with but really i'm a scientist i've done all this because that inquisitive mind i constantly at work on a new formula at this very moment you are looking at a film whose acetate base was made with but slowly you can even hear it's in the past they can musical instrument chances are your day starts with a synthetic lets run into plates or alcohol in your shaving motion the seat cushions that drop breakfast table may be artificial leather made from the trolley i'm derivative and because  we have been able to synthesize vitamin e which does a great deal toward producing eggs and greater quantity for strange as it may seem vitamin e added to chicken feed that not only increases egg production for oil in your paper it's a vital part of and there's a new kind of thing that makes reading easier because of it and it's much  property without a trace that's one of the beauties of the petroleum derived decorative overlay for tabletop the plastic ashtray comes from oil so that the wax on the mats to help grow the cigarette tobacco an accident but no harm done to this ways for oil derivatives to improve your eating pleasure it's a modern laboratory complete to the last a day including one hundred forty acres of land every foot of which contributes to the research program here they grow in powering and protecting farm implements is not exactly news and in addition to the protection of machinery against another petroleum product comes into play rust preventing it successfully protects equipment even an outdoor story there is a side to the petroleum industry agricultural research however which isn't so generally known a laboratory where testing of spray and women who make farming more scientific more efficient farmers grow more and better food and so long before the food which is your table the work goes on the study of plant growth under control hothouse conditions the trying out of new chemical compounds for control of insects and the fungus and virus disease they're running a pilot tests for new products to stimulate the growth of plans almost invisible platform and drop to keep the food from falling hold it on the trees until the best time to harvest some of the scientists out working on methods to give us better food and actually applying them as in the case of the trees others must carry on another type of work a battle against the plant enemies and pests underground let's follow petroleum away from food and see what else it does the weather ometer is designed to test new coatings oil based paints asphalt rust preventing and other petroleum product i'm really gets around it does its work in every room it has its artistic to a laboratory technician will cure by heat and pressure of chemicals from the there we are petroleum and still another guy a blot got clear plastic every one of these plastic articles contains but  that black blue it has changed a lot since it came from an oil well look up the street asphalt with nearly half a million miles of thoroughfares in the united states look down on official leather shoes made with the help of petroleum and when you get into your car you're literally surrounded by all that so apple ketone is used on my toes but you know slacker automobile finishes and think there's all inside the car and i scientists challenging the lab at every turn here's a trick performed by a petroleum product that's quite thick to actually leads light around that curve a neat trick and mighty handy when your dentist is looking for some inside information and many other and even more important ways modern medicine is aided by petroleum its derivatives are used in making penicillin an