The consumption of petroleum in the United States is compared to that of the rest of the world through an animation. The animation shows the population of the U.S. and the world outside of the United States in the year 1890. The animation also compares total consumption in barrels and per capita consumption in gallons of the U.S. and the rest of the world.
A passenger train arrives in the United States. U.S. Marines on vestibules of the passenger train. The train on a railway track. Buildings in the background. The train moves along the track. Some of the Marines inside the train, look out through the windows. They leave the train. The Marines march beneath an archway. They walk with personal belongings. Buildings in the background. Disassembled United States Marine Corps Airco DH-4s on flat cars.
Development of air power. A seaplane launched from a submarine underway at sea in the United States. Sailors on the deck of a submarine roll out the fuselage of a United States Navy Cox-Klemin XS-1 seaplane. They attach the wings, floats and rudders to the craft. A U.S. flag flutters aboard the submarine. The XS-1 aircraft on the deck with engines running. The submarine submerges in water. The seaplane floats on the water.
Development of air power. Bombing tests on USS Alabama in September 1921 in the United States. USS Alabama anchored in water. A soldier arms and works on fuse mechanism of a large bomb swung underneath a large bomber. A standard-Handley Page 0/400 bomber in flight to the right over water. A United States Army Air Corps Dayton Wright DH-4 aircraft in flight to the left dropping a bomb. The bomb explodes on the ship. A phosphorus bomb explodes on the ship and engulfs the entire ship in smoke. The ship explodes. Part of the superstructure topples off into the water. The ship lists over a side with one of the towers bent over and lying in the water.
Development of air power. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Al J. Williams in the United States. He holds the official world speed record at 266.6 miles an hour. A United States Navy Curtiss R2C-1 racer parked on an airfield. Lt. Williams in the cockpit of the aircraft. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett shakes hands with Lt. Williams. Cameramen and officials in the background. The Curtiss R2C-1 racer flies past and overhead around a pylon. The aircraft comes in for a landing.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. Passengers climb the stairs and into an early model bi winged, twin engined passenger airliner. Passengers exit an early model touring car and get into a U.S. Navy Larsen JL-6 transport aircraft. A pilot gets into the cockpit of the passenger aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Passengers getting in and out of the cabin of an early model seaplane. An Aeromarine West Indies Airways U.S. and Cuban mail service amphibian, which is a converted U.S. Navy TN-1O airship, in flight over water. Passengers looking out of the windows of the converted TN-1O airship. Men load cargo into the cockpit of a United States Army Air Service Curtiss JN-6 aircraft.
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