# Source note — Herbert Dow / Bromine cartel YouTube Short

Date captured: 2026-08-29
Original URL: https://youtube.com/shorts/QgmWXXK7Mzo?is=vY5U0GW538PrGXjb
Canonical watch URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgmWXXK7Mzo
Title: A CARTEL Went BROKE Trying To KILL Him
Channel: Drew Carrell / @drew_carrell
Duration: 99 seconds

## What was preserved
- YouTube metadata JSON, description, thumbnail and auto-caption SRT.
- Clean transcript and timestamped transcript.
- Dow corporate history/source pages where accessible.
- American Chemical Society page found via browser: Electrolytic Production of Bromine by Herbert H. Dow.
- Secondary source captures/searches: Mackinac/FEE/ICIS/Wikipedia source trail for the bromine cartel story.
- MP4 download limitation: YouTube returned HTTP 403, so the public YouTube URL, metadata, thumbnail and captions are preserved instead.

## Editorial label
Business-history source card. The core story is strongly supported as a historical business anecdote, but details such as exact quantities and cartel negotiation chronology should be treated as source-trail details, not independently re-proven from primary contracts here.