It seemed like a good idea at the time ...
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Thomas Midgley, Jr., inventor credited with not one, but two world changing inventions that seemed like very good ideas at the time:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html
In the early 1920s, Midgley came up with the idea of adding a lead compound called tetraethyl lead ("Ethyl") to gasoline to solve the "engine knocking" problem at the time.
A few years later, Midgley came up with Freon, a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerant used in refrigerators and air conditioners to make them safer.
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@Jolly said in It seemed like a good idea at the time ...:
They were very good ideas.
Agree. At the time, "you dont know what you dont know"
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