Who put lead in gasoline?
Who put lead in gasoline? Thomas Midgley, Jr. Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 - November 2, 1944), an American chemist, developed the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive for gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and held over a hundred patents. Who created CFCs? Among those who contributed some of history's most dangerous innovations was a bespectacled chemist from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Thomas Midgley, Jr. introduced the world to both leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), now considered two of the world's most harmful chemical compounds. Was Thomas Midgley married? On August 'A, 1911, Midgley married Miss Carrie M. Rey- nolds of Delaware, Ohio....