Tetraethyllead
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Tetraethyllead, abbreviated TEL, is an organolead compound with the formula Pb4. It was widely used as a fuel additive for much of the 20th century, first being mixed with gasoline beginning in the 19
Sign on an antique gasoline pump advertising tetraethyllead by the Ethyl Corporation
Thomas Midgley Jr.
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Thomas Midgley Jr. was an American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons, better known in the United States b
Tetraethyllead
…turn increased vehicle performance and fuel economy. TEL was first synthesized by German chemist Carl Jacob Löwig in 1853. American chemical engineer Thomas Midgley Jr., who was working for the U.S. corporation General Motors, was the first to discover its effectiveness as a knock inhibitor on 9 December 1921, after…
Midgley c. 1930s–1940s