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General Motors owns a patent on leaded gasoline. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gm-engineers-discover-that-leaded-gas-reduces-knock-in-auto-engine
by stephengillie 8y ago
General Motors owns a patent on leaded gasoline.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gm-engineers-discover-that-leaded-gas-reduces-knock-in-auto-engines https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gm-engineers-dis...
- frostburg 8y agoInvented by the same person that invented Freon, too. Talented chemical engineer but possibly the most harmful human to have ever lived by some metrics.
- JetSpiegel 8y agoThe same guy who was killed by his own apparatus to get him out of bed after he caught polio. [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Later_life_and_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Later_life_...
- burger_moon 8y agoHis whole wiki reads like a horror story. So many people died of lead poisoning at DuPont where they were developing it. > Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.