PROBLEM SOLVING - A CAUTIONARY TALE
I was wanting to learn about and write something on how leaded gasoline became a thing. But then I came upon the biography of its inventor.
Thomas Midgley, Jr. was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1889. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio and studied engineering at Cornell, earning a Master’s of Engineering in 1908 and a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1911. Five years later he was working for General Motors, at their Dayton Engineering Laboratories (DELCo) subsidiary in Ohio.
