Facing a crowd of journalists, inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. poured a lead additive over his hands and then proceeded to inhale its fumes for about a minute. Unfazed, he said, “I could do this every day ...
Thomas Midgley Jr was once renowned as a trailblazing innovator, one of America’s foremost minds. But now, almost a century after his grisly death, he is considered one of history’s worst inventors, ...
THE arrival in Great Britain from the United States of ethyl petrol—the anti-knock fuel containing 6 c.c. of ethyl fluid (lead-tetra-ethyl 54-5 per cent.; ethylene dibromide 36-5 per cent.; and ...
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