Word: midgley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chemist Calingaert predicted that U. S. industry would lose little time applying his discovery to a variety of chemical shortcuts. Last week Ethyl Gasoline's alert Vice President, Thomas Midgley Jr., compared the Calingaert discovery to a ferryboat which enabled loving but frustrated lads and lassies on opposite sides of a river to get together. "What a lot of fun we're going to have," said Mr. Midgley, "shoving that ferryboat around...
...gold in the world's seas, according to the Physical Tables of the Smithsonian Institution. If this store were distributed evenly among the earth's 2,000,000,000 inhabitants, every living human would receive the equivalent, at Roosevelt prices, of about $24,500. Last week Thomas Midgley Jr., vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., predicted that extraction of the ocean's gold on a commercial scale would begin in ten years. Mr. Midgley pointed out that ten years ago no one thought it possible to get bromine from the ocean on a commercial basis. Today...
...Thomas Midgley Jr., Dayton chemist, inventor of ethyl gasoline, placed a dish of a new refrigerant devised by him on a table before his section. Leaning low over the boiling dish he inhaled the white gas given off by the steaming liquid. Through a rubber tube he then blew the gas out of his lungs into a dish containing a burning candle, extinguished...
...only effect of the gas on humans is to produce a "kind of intoxication." Said Experimenter Midgley: ''The best way I can describe this sensation is to say that it is deadening. Instead of the exhilaration such as is credited to alcohol, these fumes do not arouse a desire to sing or to recite poetry...
...Midgley's refrigerant, a combination of fluorine, chlorine, carbon, was developed in a General Motors laboratory with the aid of Dr. A. L. Henne, Belgian chemist...