Celebrated in Stuttgart one day last week with the fanfare appropriate to one of Germany’s leading corporations was the 50th anniversary of the founding of Robert Bosch A. G. Happily the date ...

Turn-of-the-century automobile owners considered a magneto-less automobile useless. Full of praise were they for the inventor of the gadget which supplied the spark, which exploded the gas, which made ...

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first commercially viable high-voltage spark plug, patented in 1902 by German automotive pioneer Robert Bosch, who designed it as part of a magneto-based ...

F. R. HAIGH has recently compared the relative advantages of magneto and coil ignition used for generating the explosions which occur in motor-car engines (Students' Quart. J. Inst. Elec. Eng., Dec.).