Person
Charles F. Kettering
American engineer whose General Motors research team turned to lead as an anti-knock additive; president of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation in 1925.
- Also known as
- Charles Kettering
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head of
- Ethyl Corporation 1925 President Primary record 1
developed
- Tetraethyl lead led the research team Primary record 1
involved in
- Surgeon General’s conference on tetraethyl lead, 1925 for Ethyl: told the history of the additive Primary record 1
- Finding tetraethyl lead’s anti-knock effect, 1921 his boss Scholarship & press 2
Timeline 1 date
- 1925 Charles F. Kettering head of Ethyl Corporation
Proof 2 sources
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Proceedings of a Conference to Determine Whether or Not There Is a Public Health Question in the Manufacture, Distribution, or Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925.
Primary record
President, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
almost as a last resort we started to study the properties of lead.
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The Secret History of Lead (Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation, March 2000), The Nation, 20 Mar 2000.
Scholarship & press
On December 9, 1921, a young engineer named Thomas Midgley Jr. , working in the laboratory of the General Motors Research Corporation in Dayton, Ohio, reported to his boss, Charles Kettering , that he’d discovered that tetraethyl lead
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