Electric ignition system just one of 'Boss' Kettering’s enduring automotive inventions

3 February 2012, 9:24 pm

An article in Autoweek refreshed many memories of Charles “Boss” Kettering, recognized as the Thomas A. Edison of the automobile industry. Kettering, known by many of our readers as a co-founder of the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Hospital in New York City, held 140 patents. His most famous, of course, was the self-starter. The automobile self-starter, that is.... Read More »

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