Like I promised in my last post (read here), it’s time to discuss the revolution created by 1920s automobiles in the United States. Some parts of the revolution are obvious, others less so. But, overall, it might be fair to write that no single product except computers changed daily life more than automobiles did during […]
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The Poisoning of America & Thomas Midgley
Are you familiar with the name Thomas Midgley? If not, you should be. It’s probable that no one in United States history has more to do with the poisoning of America than Thomas Midgley, a chemist who worked for the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company in the 1920s. Midgley’s first contribution to the poisoning of America […]