Kettering, Charles

Kettering, Charles (1947). Leo Hendrik Baekeland. National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoir 24 281-302. 

Thomas Midgley, working with a group of researchers under Charles F. Kettering, discovered a fuel-additive, tetraethyl lead that enhanced the knock resistance of existing fuels. By the time this additive entered commercial use in 1923, the average compression ratio of new U.S. cars had advanced to 4.3. 

Professional Amateur The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering. New York ... 

Charles F. Kettering. Midgley—Man of Marvels. The American Weekly. Mar. 25, 1945. Kettering file 12/34. Source for Midgley as World War II hero. 

As early as 1925, two of the first automobile engineers became aware of the need to improve the octane number of fuels. Charles Kettering advocated the use of a newly developed compound called tetra-ethyl lead, Pb(C2H5)4. This compound acts as a catalyst to... 

Wall and Wani collaborated in their research on Taxux brevifolia and Camptotheca acuminata for 38 years. They have received some of the most prestigious awards given in their field of science, most notably the 2000 Charles F. Kettering Prize for outstanding research on the diagnosis or treatment of cancer. 

Thomas Midgley, Jr. invented chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), or Freon, as a safe refrigerant for the home refrigerator, on assignment from his boss Charles Kettering. He set out with a specific purpose in mind, and he bent all his intellectual powers to that quest (McGrayne and Sharon 2001). 

With what does market development concern itself It concerns the future. Charles Kettering of GM was credited with saying We should all be interested in the future because we expect to spend the rest of our lives there. ... 

As Charles F. Kettering said, The price of progress is trouble. ... 

Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory, Yellow Springs, OH 45387... 

I should like to thank my colleagues at the Charles F. Kettering Laboratory for the many sound and ongoing discussions. This chapter constitutes Contribution No. 662 from the Charles F. Kettering Research Laboratory. 

Chapter 16 Antineoplastic Agents Charles W. Young and David A. Karnofsky Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, N. Y. 

Charles Kettering s starter caught on quickly and the sales of electrics dropped to 6,000 vehicles, only 1% of the total, by 1913. In that year, sales of the Ford Model T alone were over 180,000. Electric carmakers closed down or united. There were almost 30 companies selling electrics in 1910 and less than 10 at the end of World War I. A few, such as the industry leader Detroit Electric, lasted into the 1920s. 

Other formulations of high-octane fuel were known, but all had their problems. Ethyl alcohol, called ethanol by chemists, could solve the knock problem, but the new prohibition law made it hard to get supplies for experiments. Moreover, Midgley s boss, the famed automobile engineer Charles Kettering, feared that production of ethanol in the quantities required to fuel cars would use up food crops. Tetraethyl lead promised enormous profits, so General Motors pushed ahead. To manufacture the additive, the auto company contracted with its sister company DuPont and with Standard Oil of New Jersey. Production lines were opened at DuPont s Deepwater plant in southern New Jersey and Standard s Bayway refinery in Elizabeth.10... 

W. Kovarik, Charles F. Kettering and the 1921 Discovery of Tetraethyl Lead in the Context of Technological Alternatives, http //www.runet.edu/ wkovarik/... 

California Institute of Teehnology 187 Charles Kettering Laboratory 238 The Chemieal Society (see also Royal Soeiety of Chemistry) 21,23 Chemistry Institute of Canada 187... 

Irwin H. Krakoff, the former Sloan-Kettering professor, the new Chairman of the Division of Medicine at MDACCC (who followed both Enul Frei and Clifton Howe), with the fiiU endorsement of the new MDACCC president Charles A. LeMaistre (follower of Randolph Lee Clark), retained this author in the status of adjunct consulting professor at the external staff of MDACCC for the next two decades. During this time. The Southern Medical Association in San Antonio, TX, honored this author with its gold medal, for achievements in cancer research and tumor virology . 

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