Place
Dayton, Ohio
City in Ohio where General Motors’ research men found tetraethyl lead’s anti-knock effect and where ethyl gasoline first went on sale.
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- First sale of ethyl gasoline, 1923 Primary record 1
- Finding tetraethyl lead’s anti-knock effect, 1921 Scholarship & press 2
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
It was marketed commercially flrst on February 1, 1923, at Dayton, Ohio
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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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