Stupid quote day: automobiles 2
February 17, 2008 by Miki Saxon
“[By 1965] the deluxe open-road care will probably be 20 feet long, powered by a gas turbine engine, little brother to the jet engine.” —Leo Cheren (Editor and Publisher of the Research Institute of America), 1955
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“The gasoline additive ethyl is perfectly harmless to humans.” Thomas Midgley, ca. 1925, inventor of tetraethyl lead and CFCs.
Oh Jean, that is priceless.I wonder how many of food additives will fall in the same category in years to come.
Yeah…I love the fact that Midgley not only invented tetraethyl lead but also CFCs. It took years of protest to get both of those substances out of the marketplace. I learned about Midgley in a book by Bill Bryson called “A Short History of Nearly Everything”.
Ahhh, truly a man with the best intentions:)