What I like about this group is I regularly learn something new, or something more about something I knew a little of..
Malcolm
I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy it!
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
The writing is on the wall.
Ha-ktovet al ha-kir
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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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