Ethel gasoline. (what was it?) - Factual Questions - Straight Dope
2000年5月2日 · “Ethyl” gasoline corresponded to “premium” gas nowadays. The difference was the addition of tetraethyl lead to the gas, which boosted octane and also protected the engine against wear (the lead plated onto the cylinder walls, …
Ethyl Anti-Knock Gas - American Oil & Gas Historical Society
The world’s first anti-knock gasoline containing a tetra-ethyl lead compound went on sale at the Refiners Oil Company service station in Dayton, Ohio. A bolt on “Ethylizer” can be seem running vertically alongside the visible reservoir.
Tetraethyllead - Wikipedia
Tetraethyllead (commonly styled tetraethyl lead), abbreviated TEL, is an organolead compound with the formula Pb (C 2 H 5) 4. It was widely used as a fuel additive for much of the 20th century, first being mixed with gasoline beginning in the 1920s.
Ethyl Corporation - Wikipedia
Ethyl Corporation is a fuel additive company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States. The company is a distributor of fuel additives. Among other products, Ethyl Corporation distributes tetraethyl lead, an additive used to make leaded gasoline.
Ethyl leaded gasoline - Environmental history
Kettering gave leaded gasoline the name “ethyl,” which confused the product with another fuel additive, ethyl alcohol, that was widely used in high compression racing engines and in anti-knock blends with gasoline.31
ETHYL: The 1920s conflict over leaded gasoline & alternative fuels
Ethyl leaded gasoline is the confusing brand name choice for tetra ethyl lead (TEL), which was an anti-knock (octane boosting) gasoline additive discovered by General Motors researchers on Dec. 9, 1921 and introduced commercially in Ohio on Feb. 2,1923. Ethyl is also the corporate name of the joint GM-Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon) venture ...
A century of tragedy: Leaded gasoline | Environmental history
2021年12月9日 · With vast profits in sight – and very few public health regulations at the time – General Motors Co. rushed gasoline diluted with tetraethyl lead to market despite the known health risks of lead. They named it “Ethyl” gas. It has been 100 years since that pivotal day in the development of leaded gasoline.
The rise and fall of leaded gasoline - The Conversation
2021年12月8日 · Leaded gas was marketed as Ethyl, a joint brand of Standard Oil and General Motors. John Margolies/Library of Congress. Attempts at regulation. In May 1925, the U.S. Public Health Service asked...
Special timeline: Leaded gasoline - Environmental history
Ethyl gasoline “is entirely safe to the health of [motorists] and to the public in general when used as a motor fuel, and is not a narcotic in its effect, a poisonous dope, or dangerous to the life or health of a customer, purchaser, user or the general public.”.
One Man Invented Two of the Deadliest Substances of the 20th Century
2017年5月18日 · First, as a chemical engineer for General Motors, Midgley discovered that the addition of tetraethyl lead to gasoline solved the problem of engine “knocking.”