Segment 1 — The Hook

In the spring of 1928, a young engineer named Thomas Midgley Jr. stood in a laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, and demonstrated that a new synthetic gas could be breathed without harm and would not catch fire even when a lit match was held to it. The compound, dichlorodifluoromethane, soon became known as Freon-12. ...

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