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Of Dead Bodies and Dirty Streets

By Deborah Blum
Posted: August 25, 2011

Category: lead, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Dupont, ethyl gasoline, lead poisoning, leaded gasoline, loony gas, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Standard Oil, Tetraethyl Lead, Thomas Midgley Jr. | 27 Comments

At the Door of the Loony Gas Building

By Deborah Blum
Posted: August 24, 2011

Category: consumer protection, lead, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged Alexander Gettler, Charles Kettering, Charles Norris, Dupont, Jr., lead poisoning, leaded gasoline, loony gas, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Standard Oil, Tetraethyl Lead, Thomas Midgley | 25 Comments

An Almost Perfect Murder

By Deborah Blum
Posted: August 9, 2011

Category: carbon monoxide, methane, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged Alexander Gettler, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, Charles Norris, forensic toxicology, hydrogen, Leah Friendlich, methane, murder, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Tenement Museum, The Poisoner's Handbook | 7 Comments

The Radium Girls

By Deborah Blum
Posted: March 24, 2011

Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Harrison S. Martland, Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, N.J., New York City Medical Examiner's Office, nuclear, Orange, Pierre Curie, polonium, radioactivity, radium, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium | 19 Comments

At the Prohibition Bar

By Deborah Blum
Posted: December 31, 2010

Category: alcohol, poison, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook | Tagged 18th Amendment, 1920s, alcohol, Charles Norris, cocktails, moonshine, poison alcohol, Prohibition, speakeasy, The Chemist's War, The Poisoner's Handbook, wood alcohol | 5 Comments