Leaded gasoline ban.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ogunseitan, Oladele A.
- Source
- Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022. 1p.
- Subject
- Government policy
Gasoline
Lead content of gasoline
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
United States politics & government, 1969-1974
- Language
Environmental policy. Charles F. Kettering and Thomas A. Midgley are credited with developing leaded gasoline in the 1920’s. Kettering was vice president of research at General Motors, and Midgley was Kettering’s research assistant. The discovery of leaded gasoline was driven in part by the desire to eliminate the rackety sound (knocking) of early, inefficient automobile engines. The specific discovery that tetraethyl lead functions as a near perfect “antiknock” agent for gasoline engines is dated to December 9, 1921.