Bibliography of Articles on
Thomas Midgley Consulted
Articles negatively mentioning Midgley’s role in placing
lead in gasoline:
environmental damage than anyone else in human history
inventor of two deadliest substances
poison on the day it was invented.
responsible for climate change
More conciliatory articles about Midgley:
Jonathan Edwards argues “we should still remember him for being a pioneer
with his heart in the right place. “Which chemist's work has touched the most
lives? Marie Curie? Louis Pasteur? Joseph Lister?” Jonathan Edwards, Chemistry World,
30 June 2008.
Articles about Midgely’s life:
National Academies biography:
Kettering, Charles; "Biographical Memoir of Thomas Midgley, Jr.", 1947.
Article on Midgley’s death, entertaining the possibility it was a suicide:
Giunta, Carmen; "Thomas Midgley, Jr., And The Invention of Chlorofluorocarbon
Refrigerants: It Ain't Necessarily
So", Bull. Hist. Chem., Volume 31, Number 2 (2006), pgs 66-74.
From the Periodic Table to
Production: The Life of Thomas Midgley, Jr., the Inventor of Ethyl Gasoline
and Freon Refrigerants, by Thomas Midgley IV
(Stargazer Publishing Company: August 1, 2001).
ISBN-10: 0964385309
ISBN-13: 978-0964385306
Midgley’s articles:
Midgley’s description
of the development of leaded gasoline and FREON.
Midgley Jr, Thomas. "From the periodic table to production."
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 29, no. 2 (1937): 241-244.
Midgley’s description
of safety testing done for lead.
Midgley, Thomas, Jr; "Tetraethyl Lead Poison Hazards", Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry, August 1925, pages 827-828.
History of leaded gasoline:
Rise and Fall of Tetraethyllead.
Seyferth, Dietmar. "The Rise and Fall of Tetraethyllead. 2."
Organometallics 22, no. 25 (2003): 5154-5178.
This article contains an estimate of total consumption of
lead over the majority of years it was sold.
209 gigatons (metric) of leaded gasoline cumulatively sold with 8 million
tons (metric) of lead.
History
from a public health perspective.
William (Bill) Kovarik,, “Milestones:
leaded gasoline”, INT J OCCUP ENVIRON HEALTH 2005;11:384–397, VOL 11/NO 4,
OCT/DEC 2005 • www.ijoeh.com
A study
of the politics and technology of leaded fuel. “The Secret History of Lead”,
By Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation Institute, March 2, 2000.
NRDC
report stating no amount of lead can be considered safe.
Fuel for piston-engine aircraft still contain lead.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021.
Options for Reducing Lead Emissions from Piston-Engine Aircraft. Washington,
DC: The National Academies Press.https://doi.org/10.17226/26050.