Being an inventor means taking risks. Some risks go too far.
, which became the web rotary press. Enabling large rolls of paper to continuously be fed into the machine, the press then folded and cut the paper. In 1867, he was working on a press that was being installed at the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper. A belt became detached from a pulley, and instead of shutting the machine off to fit ix, Bullock kicked it in an attempt to get the belt back in place.and mangled by the machine.
While Thomas Midgley Jr. was certainly a brilliant inventor and scientist, his legacy is tarnished because his work led to. He came up with the idea of adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline, as a solution to engine knocking. While it was effective, it was also a toxic pollutant that damaged emission control equipment. Next, he synthesized what we would come to know as Freon, for use as a refrigerant. This led to the expansion of chlorofluorocarbons use, which caused immense damage to the ozone.
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