When your attention is turned to the exhibits themselves the first thing to greet your eyes is a mammoth crown, surmounting a pillar, from which four projection machines throw motion pictures upon a ring of screens, 30 feet high, around the walls. This 630 feet of screen forms the stage for the story, in filmed detail, of the essential contributions of oil to the powering and lubricating of transportation
And here1s an old stage coach, scarred by bullets and Indian arrows, a Rocky Mountain stage coach that could tell many a tale of bandits and redskin raids. Nearby, an original Conestoga emigrant wagon, in which pioneering families slowly moved toward new and ever new horizons, braving death and hunger and suffering.
And here is a horse and buggy. Nearby one of the old buggy-type automobiles, first of its breed, startling contrast to its modern prototype, to be seen further on in the exhibits.
An original Curtiss box-kite pusher is shown, an early type of plane, far cry in design and power, but not in years, from the monster planes that are shown later on.
