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Fair program to include water-powered vehicle
2 May 1985
Fair program to include water-powered vehicle
A car powered strictly by water.
That’s what a company from Grove City showed the Darke County Agricultural Society Wedneaday evening in an effort to allow the company, Water Fuel Cell, to demonstrate the working model at the Great Darke County Fair.
Stanley A. Meyer, executive director of the firm which developed the showed a video tape of the car and the water cell, which is expected to revolutionize the energy market within the next decade.
Meyer stated during his presentation that he has been at the fair the two previous years with just the cell. However, this year he has converted the cell to operate in a combustible engine and was ready to present the new product in front of a grandstand audience.
“I feel historically, the fair was brought about to introduce new ideas to people,” Meyer said. “By allowing us to demonstrate this, it allows us to usher in the technology to the American people.”
The fair board’s only problem with the demonstration came in finding one hour free in front of the grandstand for the exhibition. The Saturday afternoon before the state-sponsored tractor pull and the Thursday after the Junior Fair parade were two possibilities mentioned as appropriate for the demonstration.
Three fairs, not one
“He has been at the fair the two previous years with just the cell” puts him at the Great Darke County Fair in 1983 and 1984 as well, which the archive had no record of. Those two years he brought the cell on its own. What changed for 1985 is that it was driving an engine, and that is why he was asking for the grandstand rather than a stall.
The two slots the board considered are both worth noting: the hour before the state-sponsored tractor pull, and the Thursday after the Junior Fair parade. The archive does not know which was used, or whether the demonstration happened at all.
As printed
Two of the printer’s slips are kept above rather than quietly mended: “Wedneaday” for Wednesday, and “executive director of the firm which developed the showed a video tape”, where a phrase has dropped out of the line. The sense is that he was executive director of the firm which developed it, and that he showed a video tape.
The original
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- The newspaper page is copyright its publisher and is reproduced here as a record of what was printed at the time; the archive claims nothing in it. The watermark marks the archive’s copy, not its ownership. The citation is what a reader needs to find the original.
- Caption
- The Daily Advocate, Greenville, Ohio, Thursday 2 May 1985. The second column of the report covers the rest of the fair board’s business and is transcribed here only as far as it concerns the demonstration.
- Citation
- The Daily Advocate, Greenville, Ohio, May 1985
- Publication
- The Daily Advocate, Greenville, Ohio
- Transcription
- A clipping from the printed page, photographed and supplied by the archive’s editor.