10 Facts About Lyle Goodhue

Lyle D Goodhue was an internationally known inventor, research chemist and entomologist, with 105 US and 25 foreign patents.

Lyle Goodhue invented the "aerosol bomb", which was credited with saving the lives of many thousands of soldiers during World War II by dispensing malaria mosquito-killing liquid insecticides as a mist from small containers.

Lyle Goodhue was born on a farm in Malaka Township, Jasper County, Iowa, on September 30,1903, to Thomas Warwick and Katherine Jane Lyle Goodhue.

Lyle Goodhue married Helen Elizabeth Hamaker, daughter of Charles Haynes and Jenny Leuna Hamaker June 19,1929, in Des Moines, Iowa.

The disposable spray can was largely undeveloped until Lyle Goodhue devised a practical version and filed for a patent in 1941 while working for the US Department of Agriculture.

In 1945, Lyle Goodhue, often called the "Father of the Aerosol Industry", joined Airosol, Inc.

In 1947, Lyle Goodhue joined Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as a senior research chemist and director of agricultural chemicals research.

Lyle Goodhue retired from Phillips in 1968 as Avitrol technical manager.

Lyle Goodhue wrote this account in 1969 of his ground-breaking 1941 aerosol experiment while working for the USDA in Maryland:.

Lyle Goodhue had just sprayed a few dozen American roaches with the new aerosol.