Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
National Treasure: Book of Secrets is a 2007 American action-adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure and is the second film of the National Treasure franchise .
Thomas Midgley may refer to: Thomas Midgley (footballer) (1856–1957), English footballer; Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944), American chemist
In his capacity as an engineer with General Motors, Thomas Midgley Jr. experimented with a myriad of different compounds, which he added to petrol in an attempt to prevent engines from knocking. Eventually, he discovered one compound that worked brilliantly: tetraethyllead .
Thomas Midgley, 76, of Watson Street, Wilkes-Barre Township, was sentenced by Lupas to four-to-23 months at the county correctional facility on six counts of child pornography. Midgley pled guilty ...
These are lists of works of fiction that have been made into feature films.The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work’s author and the title of the film, and the year of the film.
Secrets is a young adult book by Jacqueline Wilson, published in 2002 by Doubleday. Secrets is told from the point of view of two pre-adolescent girls, Treasure and India, via their diary entries. Despite their very different backgrounds - Treasure coming from a violent and abusive household, India having rich but inattentive parents - the ...
The Book of Secrets, 1997 album by Loreena McKennitt; The Secret Book, 2006 Macedonian detective film directed by Vlado Cvetanovski; National Treasure: Book of Secrets, 2007 film directed by Jon Turteltaub; America's Book of Secrets, a program broadcast by History TV channel "Book of Secrets" (L.A.'s Finest), a 2019 television episode