On receipt of orders from designated person in authority, destroy typewriters as completely as time, means, and personnel permit. Priority will be given to the obliteration or destruction of all unit identification lettering or markings, all serial numbers, and all manufacturer's nameplates. Smash typewriters and components with a sledge or other heavy instrument ; burn with kerosene, gasoline, fuel oil, flame thrower, or incendiary bomb; detonate with firearms, grenades, TNT, or other explosives. In the absence of other means, bury, sink, or scatter parts and components.

At the beginning of the 20th century most of the people would use petrol petroleum lamps to produce light kerosene lamps and of course then came electrification and electricity made kerosene lamps obsolid. Nevertheless, during the 20th century, we are burning more and more oil to produce light. And today, just the the headlights of the automobiles burn more oil than the whole economy, the whole world economy did in the early 20th century