Thomas Midgley Jr. wasn't looking to change the world forever. The engineer and chemist was part of a team organized by General Motors looking for a way to keep gasoline from burning at the wrong time ...

Thomas Midgley was once celebrated as a brilliant inventor, but his creations - including leaded petrol and CFCs - left behind one of the most destructive legacies in history. This short documentary ...

According to Bernstein, our man had to be persuaded, at length, to do his research into ‘Freon’, and would most likely have ...