Word: tetraethyl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovery was an accident. Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, 45, likes to try out new drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...
Blood Accelerator. There was a small ray of hope for victims of Buerger's disease, painful, incurable ailment caused by blood-vessel constriction that impedes circulation to the legs and feet. University of Michigan physicians reported that a nerve-blocking injection of tetraethyl ammonium dilates blood vessels, relieves Buerger's disease (as well as certain other disorders resulting from blocked circulation). The drug does not cure, but it may stop pain for as long as six months...
Died. Thomas Midgley Jr., 55, discoverer of tetraethyl lead for antiknock gasoline, vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., president of the American Chemical Society; of accidental strangulation, by a self-devised harness for getting in & out of bed since he was invalided in 1940 by infantile paralysis; in Worthington. Ohio...
...A.C.S.'s President Thomas Midgley Jr. complained that scientific progress was suffering from "too many old men at the helm." An inventor who made his most important discovery (tetraethyl lead in gas) at 33, Dr. Midgley, now 55, cited cases (e.g., Sir William Perkin's invention of aniline dyes at 18) to show that invention is a young man's game. Said he: "Every executive who has lived beyond the age of 40 is guilty, to some slight extent, of not getting out of the way of the younger...
Next came tetraethyl lead, introduced in 1922, which acts like a high content of isooctane. Added to the best leadless gasoline, it raises the octane rating to around...