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| Originally Posted by 749er excellent!
dont know if this is true but I got told that the guy who worked out it was a good idea to put lead in petrol then went on to put CFCs in fridges. |
That's true... Thomas Midgely's yer man.
Guess how he died...... lead poisoning? Nope.
He was a great inventor but contracted polio at the age of 51, which left him severely disabled. He devise an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to lift him from bed. This system was the eventual cause of his death when he was accidentally entangled in the ropes of this device and died of strangulation at the age of 55.