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DINO was called a Brontosaurus when he was first used in Sinclair advertising. So why do we call him an Apatosaurus now? Dinosaur fossils are rare, which makes it difficult to study and classify them.
- THE SINCLAIR OIL DINOSAUR FACT SHEET
The Apatosaurus (then thought to be a Brontosaurus) quickly...
- DINO: THE SINCLAIR OIL DINOSAUR FACT SHEET
The Apatosaurus (then thought to be a Brontosaurus) quickly...
- THE SINCLAIR OIL DINOSAUR FACT SHEET
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- Orginal Corythosaurus in Kansas
As Sinclair’s dinosaur exhibit attracted Depression Era crowds. the company published a special edition newspaper, Big News, promoting the company’s diverse array of dinosaurs — and petroleum products. The Sinclair dinosaur exhibit drew large crowds once again at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Four years later, even more visitors marveled at...
In 1935, Sinclair Oil published dinosaur stamps and a stamp album that could be filled only with colored dinosaur stamps — issued one at a time weekly at Sinclair service stations. The first printing of Sinclair’s dinosaur stamp albums — distributed through its dealers within 48 hours after a single network radio broadcast of the offer — would asto...
“For the first time in 70 million years a herd of dinosaurs will travel down the Hudson River this month,” noted the September 1963 issue of Popular Science. “Faithfully sculptured and big as life,” noted the magazine, the fiberglass dinosaurs traveled by barge from the Catskill Mountains studio of animal sculptor Louis Paul Jonas, his 18 assistant...
Although Sinclair was born in Benwood, West Virginia, today a Wheeling suburb, he grew up in Independence, Kansas. The Historical Museum of Independence educates visitors with an Oil Room exhibiting Sinclair’s extensive Mid-Continent oilfield production and refining heritage. On display in a nearby public park is Corythosaurus – one the dinosaurs f...
Sinclair patented the gasoline additive SG-2000. The high-octane fuel blend was called "Dino Supreme" and regular gas was "Dino", trade names used since 1961 when many oil companies still used trade names for their fuels instead of generic terms such as "regular," "premium," or "unleaded".
Again in 1964 at the New York City World's Fair, Sinclair proudly displayed an exhibit featuring nine lifesized dinosaurs highlighting its unique association with the agi of the dinosaur--an age representative of the beginning of the formation of crude oil. "In 1930, Sinclair's advertising writers noted that Wellsville refined lubricants -the ...
Nov 18, 2020 · Turns out, it all stemmed from a bunch of propaganda that came out of Sinclair Oil in the early 1900s. A paleontologist (read: dinosaur bones guy) by the name of Barnum Brown was trying to fund ...
