/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15637136
every single replication has shown neither the meissner effect and high resistivity...

>>15621057
>Le modified gravity retard

>>15607787
>lead is the free energy glitch in the simulation

>>15595247
lead chads were right all along...

>>11641240 (OP)
>Inventor Thomas Midgley Jr.
>made leaded gasoline and Freon which were detrimental to breathable air and the atmosphere
>gets polio and invents a new pulley system to get him out of bed
>gets tangled in his device and can't get air into his lungs, dies of strangulation


>>11645850
>Why the homophobia?
kek

>>11641240
>Inventor Thomas Midgley Jr.
>made leaded gasoline and Freon which were detrimental to breathable air and the atmosphere
>gets polio and invents a new pully system to get him out of bed
>In 1944, he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation.

>>11645850
>Why the homophobia?
kek

>>9285492
I mean, I don't like playing the appeal to authority game, but if he got a PhD from U Chicago he's clearly not book dumb, it's an extremely selective program (I should know, I got weeded out after the interview.) That doesn't mean he's wise enough to not make really bad choices. Thomas Migdley was a brilliant chemist but he gave himself lead poisoning in a stupid publicity stunt:

>"Midgley took it upon himself to hold a demonstration where he illustrated just how harmless he believed lead to be. He did this by pouring tetra-ethyl lead over his hands and then holding a cup of it under his nose and inhaling it for sixty seconds. Whilst performing this deadly demonstration he was assuring reporters of how he could repeat this practice daily without harm. He did this whilst knowing full-well the dangers of lead poisoning due to having been over-exposed to the substance a few months previous to the demonstration."

Thomas Midgley Jr.

>invented leaded gasoline, allowing millions of engines around the world to run smoothly
>invented chlorofluorocarbons, allowing millions of women to volumize their hair with hairspray


Tragically, he died after being strangled on a system of pulleys and levers he designed to pull himself out of bed.

>>6259533
Actually, he is not the worst; this guy is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.

Thomas Midgley first discovered that if lead was added to petroleum, this would stop knocking in car engines. Of course, when his ideas were followed, cars released lead from their exhaust pipes and this was harmful not only to the environment, but to humans as well.

And that's not the end of it. He then invented refrigerators which released CFCs (chloro-flroro-carbons) which destroyed 10% of the ozone layer every decade. Luckily, people found the dangers of CFCs and stopped it before it too late.

Strangely, he died later in his own invention which was designed to help lift polio patients from beds. He died from suffocation due to strangulation.

Thomas Midgley, Jr.

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZAnnvSOEmw