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It was cheap and boosted the octane and engine compression in vehicles. There is no benefit for having the gas chamber and is one of dozens of inventions that just add no good to this world.

That's not a bad reality to consider.

The same goes for rockets. He is considered to be the man that – “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history.”. It wasn’t until 1902 that the devastating power of TNT as it is better known was fully realized and it was adopted as an explosive in time for extensive use by both sides in World War I, World War II. News images provided by Press Association and Photocall Ireland unless otherwise stated.

Scientifically known as Tetraethyl lead, or TEL, this compound initially was seen as an amazing new invention and was added to gasoline starting in the 1920s.

Tobacco caused that many deaths in only one century, and if those trends continued it’s estimated to have caused 1 billion deaths in the 21 st century. Also, the CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons as they are professionally known, produced by lead petrol continue to threaten the Earth's ozone layer to this day. Then, there are other inventions where it's hard to find a benefit. https://www.dailyedge.ie/inventions-first-world-problems-1349251-Mar2014 His other famous idea was to add tetraethyl lead to gasoline to prevent “knocking” thus causing worldwide health issues and deaths from lead poisoning.

One of the first Digital Video Recorders, or DVRs, to come to market — and a brand so successful it became a verb — TiVo to this day puts out some of the best set-top boxes on the planet. These are not just products nobody needs, these are inventions that made the world a worse place to live. Sites:

However, when Lord Kitchener succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief in South Africa in 1900, the British Army introduced new tactics in an attempt to break the guerrilla campaign and the influx of civilians grew dramatically as a result.

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10 Deadly Inventions in History – Some We Used Everyday 1.

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Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant was the first to discover heavy hydrogen nuclei could be made to react with each other . It didn't work too well in excess, defoliating most of his crop and raising concerns about safety.