The Carburetor That Promised Two Hundred Miles a Gallon
From The Inventions That Vanished.Some invent · 6:40
Show by Bryanna Alford
In the 1930s Charles Pogue patented a carburetor he said could get two hundred miles to the gallon. The patent exists. The miracle never showed up in a test. The most durable fuel-economy myth in America. The Inventions That Vanished, Episode 14.
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