In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76HS8)
In 1916, a bearded Long Island showman named Louis Enricht gathered reporters on his lawn and offered them a gasoline substitute that would "sell for a penny a gallon" - wartime alchemy, with gas running short on Europe's battlefields. He had them inspect a small car's empty tank, fill a bucket with garden-hose water, then tip in two ounces of a greenish, almond-smelling fluid. - Read the rest
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