Re:Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
by frostburg on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:31PM
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Invented by the same person that invented Freon, too. Talented chemical engineer but possibly the most harmful human to have ever lived by some metrics.
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Re:Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
by JetSpiegel on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:15PM
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The same guy who was killed by his own apparatus to get him out of bed after he caught polio. [1]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Later_life_...
Re:Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf]
by burger_moon on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:43PM
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His whole wiki reads like a horror story. So many people died of lead poisoning at DuPont where they were developing it.
> Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems.