Some Quack Medicine of the Motoring Age.

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.

Buzzed

In a prior post I had mentioned the venerable “buzz coil” as used in the Model T Ford and other automotive, marine, and stationary engine ignition systems prior to 1920.  (the model T actually used them until the end of production in 1927, long after others had abandoned them in favor of single coil/high tension distributors)… Continue reading Buzzed