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Why did we use leaded petrol for so long?
Leaded petrol was safe. Its inventor was sure of it. Facing sceptical reporters at a press conference in October 1924, Thomas Midgley dramatically produced a container of tetraethyl lead - the ...
Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the ...
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