Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research …
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Once celebrated, an inventor’s breakthroughs are now viewed as disasters — and the world is still recovering
by wbuk_userFacing a crowd of journalists, inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. poured a lead additive over his hands and then proceeded to inhale its fumes for about a minute. Unfazed, he said, …