For a bit over a hundred years now, sparkplugs fed with high voltage have been the preferred ignition method for the majority of internal combustion engines. Over the century, billions of sparkplugs have been made in all manner of variations by thousands of manufacturers. Many of the variations created were attempts to address flaws in… Continue reading Some Quack Medicine of the Motoring Age.
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Eight Fiery Cyclones Under the Hood
Sometimes multiple inventors stumble upon an idea independently of one another. Patent filings and other documentation thus become necessary to determine who has priority. I once came up with an idea and later learned I was thirty years late, but maybe it was a good idea anyway. I recall this because I found something packed… Continue reading Eight Fiery Cyclones Under the Hood