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The writing is on the wall. 
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On Wed, 8/3/16, Stefan Trethan stefan_trethan@... [Homebrew_PCBs] <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Preventing oxidation of copper outdoors
 To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 5:36 PM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       To be fair to Mr. Midgley Jr., at least he did not
 use arsenic instead
 
 of lead, which according to his experiments also worked to
 eliminate
 
 knocking. ;-)
 
 
 
 On a more serious note, you have to look at his inventions
 while
 
 keeping in mind what was known at the time. He was one of
 those people
 
 that just got the job done, even if the task was
 considered
 
 impossible, and no matter how many skills he had to learn in
 the
 
 process.
 
 
 
 He invented leaded petrol to give the allied war planes an
 edge, by
 
 allowing more compression and more power. That was his task,
 he
 
 delivered a solution in time for WW2. Don't forget
 nobody considered
 
 lead dangerous then.
 
 
 
 As for CFCs, he was faced with the task of finding a safer
 refrigerant
 
 that wouldn't kill everyone in the house if the freezer
 leaked, again
 
 he delivered. Nobody knew about this ozone layer thing back
 then.
 
 
 
 Read Charles Kettering's memoir and tell me you
 wouldn't have loved to
 
 work with the guy. One time, when he got metal splinters in
 his eye
 
 from an exploding tank, and the doctor couldn't get them
 out, he
 
 successfully dissolved them by bathing his eye in mercury. I
 mean who
 
 has an idea like that?
 
 
 
 But there must have been a darker side to the man, one
 Kettering
 
 didn't touch on. When the workers got ill at the TEL
 plant and he held
 
 that stunt press conference, he must have known this was
 unsafe. He
 
 sure knew afterwards since he was sick as a dog from the
 lead
 
 poisoning, but I don't think he did anything to set the
 record
 
 straight.
 
 
 
 I've always been suspicious about his accidental death.
 A smart man,
 
 getting tangled up in his own ropes like that, not sure if I
 buy it.
 
 Perhaps he was just tired of it all.
 
 
 
 ST
 
 
 
 On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:06 AM, 'Tony Smith'
 ajsmith1968@...
 
 [Homebrew_PCBs] <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
 wrote:
 
 >> a result of that. We might never know just how much
 damage Thomas
 
 >> Midgley actually did. Some of the damage is only
 apparent decades later (as
 
 >> with asbestos), and some is never discovered.
 
 >
 
 >
 
 > We need to build a giant statue of that dude, and let
 the pigeons crap all over it before we poison them.
 
 >
 
 > Then throw the dead pigeons at the statue.
 
 >
 
 > Tony
 
 >
 
 > (Ol' Tom's other great contribution to the
 planet was stuffing the ozone layer.)
 
 >
 
 
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
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