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Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
Midgley went as far as pouring Ethyl over his hands and inhaling it during that 1924 news conference in an attempt to quench fears. But in reality, he was also getting poisoned.
Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55.
The 300 lb (136 kg) papier-mache missile had 12 foot (3.6 m) cardboard wings, and a 40 hp (30 kW) engine. It could carry 300 lbs (136 kg) of high explosives at 50 mph (80 km/h), and cost $400. It could carry 300 lbs (136 kg) of high explosives at 50 mph (80 km/h), and cost $400.
Founded in 1923, [4] [5] Ethyl Corp was formed by General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey ().General Motors had the "use patent" for tetraethyllead (TEL) as an antiknock, based on the work of Thomas Midgley Jr., Charles Kettering, and later Charles Allen Thomas, [6]: 340–41 and Esso had the patent for the manufacture of TEL.
Robert Arthur Kehoe (/ ˈ k iː h oʊ /; November 18, 1893 – November 24, 1992) was an American toxicologist and a dominant figure in occupational health. [1] [2] Working on behalf of the lead industry (including the manufacturing of leaded gasoline and lead-acid batteries), Kehoe was the most powerful medically-trained proponent for the use of tetraethyllead as an additive in gasoline.
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Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922 – December 5, 1995) [1] was an American geochemist.Born in Mitchellville, Iowa, Patterson graduated from Grinnell College.He later received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and spent his entire professional career at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).