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 ...
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 ...
Stone is author of “American Poison,” about the deadly legacy of leaded gasoline and the pioneering woman and scientist who fought against it. In the spring of 1945, Alfred P. Sloan, the former CEO of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Someone could make a Broadway musical about him—arguably the 20th century’s single greatest human fomenter of environmental degradation, though by most accounts a pretty nice guy. It could be a comedy ...
Thomas Midgley Jr. wasn't looking to change the world forever. The engineer and chemist was part of a team organized by General Motors looking for a way to keep gasoline from burning at the wrong time ...
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 ...
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