Spattering flurries of lead flying through city streets in war-time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not ...

On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more quietly ...

General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey jointly control Ethyl Gasoline Corp. Ethyl Gas owns patents on a fluid—chief components are tetraethyl lead and ethylene dibromide—which reduces knocking ...

Automakers last month said they are worried that US refiners may expand their use of the octane-enhancer MMT. MMT, known by chemists as methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, is a ...

Like so many matters of public concern, the national dialogue on ethanol tends to the ahistorical and under-informed. Muddying things further is the fact the main parties to this debate—the one over ...

The vast majority of the fuel currently sold in North America – with a few notable exceptions, such as Shell V-Power in Canada, and a number of independent gas station chains in the United States – is ...

In another world, I would cruise into a gas station and my cracking voice would boom out: “Fill’er up with ethyl.” Yes, this truly was a different time and a different way of life. Gas stations in the ...