Extra! Extra! Coal, Petrol, Kerosene

Visitors took a look at these advertisements of yester-years; advertisements that encouraged you to buy cheaper petrol for your car, or perhaps a kerosene-powered refrigerator. These advertisements published in the early and mid-twentieth century are from the archives of The Times of India.
What can these advertisements tell us about how fossil fuels came to be central to our life of ever increasing consumption?

Medium: Archival Images


Sahil Borse