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Freon in the Pantry. In 1929 the only refrigerants in use were compounds which might possibly poison a housewife or blow up in a refrigerator owner's face. Brooding on refrigeration's future, General Motors appeals to big, famed Thomas Midgley Jr., vice president of Ethyl Corp., creator of ethyl...
General Motors wanted a quick "discovery." To act as a refrigerant, a new freezing agent must be found which had a boiling point between 0° and -40° Centigrade. The compound must also be nonpoisonous and noninflammable. Would Mr. Midgley please get busy...
...Chemist Midgley buckled down, with a corps of able assistants, in Frigidaire's Dayton, Ohio laboratory. Compound after compound was examined, tested, cast aside. Finally Chemist Midgley hit on dichlorodifluoromethane (carbon; chlorine; water; and the mineral, fluorspar). It was nonpoisonous, odorless, would not support flame. For the second spectacular time, Midgley had rung the laboratory bell...
...table were two other top-flight scientists who have made their mark in chemistry via petroleum research. One was Per Keyser Frolich, president of the American Chemical Society and director of the chemical division of Standard of New Jersey's potent Esso laboratories. The other was Dr. Thomas Midgley Jr., president-elect of the Society, pioneer in the development of antiknock gasoline, and vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp...
...trio of Midgley, Wilson and Frolich have more in common than just their arcane researches. Midgley reminded the Society that he and Wilson had not only been born in the same town (Beaver Falls, Pa.), but had been delivered by the same local doctor, and had used the same crib, which Midgley's parents passed on to the Wilson family. Wilson graduated from M.I.T. and became a major in the chemical warfare branch of the U.S. Army at 25. Frolich is also a graduate of M.I.T., like Wilson was a member of its potent Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry...