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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Steve H on August 15, 2022, 11:24:08 AM

Title: Thomas Midgley, the one-man environmental disaster.
Post by: Steve H on August 15, 2022, 11:24:08 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

Title: Re: Thomas Midgley, the one-man environmental disaster.
Post by: Udayana on August 15, 2022, 12:04:16 PM

 
His demise seems oddly appropriate and a warning to humankind:

"In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted polio, which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to lift himself out of bed. In 1944, he became entangled in the device and died of strangulation"