Event
Finding tetraethyl lead’s anti-knock effect, 1921
General Motors’ research men in Dayton found that tetraethyl lead stopped engine knock.
- Dates
- 9 Dec 1921
Connections 4
involved
- Thomas Midgley Jr. engineer who reported the finding Scholarship & press 1
- Charles F. Kettering his boss Scholarship & press 1
- General Motors employer of the research laboratory Scholarship & press 1
located in
- Dayton, Ohio Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 1 date
- 9 Dec 1921 Finding tetraethyl lead’s anti-knock effect, 1921
Proof 1 source
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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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