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He invented leaded gas and CFCs. Then his own invention killed him. ⚙️
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He invented leaded gas and CFCs. Then his own invention killed him. ⚙️

He invented leaded gas and CFCs. Then his own invention killed him. ⚙️ . . . Thomas Midgley Jr., an engineer and chemist, put lead in gasoline in 1921 and CFCs in refrigerators in 1930 — later called 'the single organism with the most adverse impact' on Earth's atmosphere. After polio left him bedridden, he engineered a rope-and-pulley harness to lift himself. On November 2, 1944, aged 55, he was found strangled in it.

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