About this Vintage Print Ad
A black-and-white institutional advertisement for General Motors highlighting its research efforts. The ad describes how GM researchers use a cathode ray oscillograph to photograph electrons moving at a speed of more than a million miles a minute, helping study automobile ignition and improve coils, contact points, circuits, and future motor car performance. It presents General Motors as a forward-looking, public-minded engineering organization.
- Brand: General Motors
- Product: General Motors Research
- Tagline: Shooting a Million Miles a Minute!
- Publication: Fortune
- Year: 1935
Objects in the advertisement: woman, scientific instrument, machine, wires, lamp, text panel
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