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Spark plug with single side electrode An electric spark on the spark plug. A spark plug (sometimes, in British English, a sparking plug, [1] and, colloquially, a plug) is a device for delivering electric current from an ignition system to the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by an electric spark, while containing combustion pressure within ...
Alexander Marshall Lodge (1881–1938) was an English inventor who did early work and held some patents on the spark plug.He and his brother Francis Brodie Lodge (1880–1967) founded a company, Lodge Brothers, in 1903 – which eventually, following a merger with the Mascot Company in 1913, was renamed Lodge Plugs Ltd; it was based in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Champion went to work producing spark plugs to be used in Buick automobiles. In 1910, the company moved to Toledo, Ohio to be close to the Willys-Overland Auto Company. [1] In 1931, Champion introduced its first suppressor-type spark plugs. It used a carbon-based resistor to reduce the effects of ignition noise on radio waves. [2]
Harvey Hubbell II (born 1857, Connecticut) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist.His best-known inventions are the U.S. electrical plug [1] and the pull-chain light socket.
In 1935, Royce G. Martin, President of the Electric Autolite Company, decided the company should enter the business of manufacturing spark plugs. Robert Twells, a ceramic engineer, led the development team. In 1936, the first spark plug was produced at their Fostoria, Ohio plant. A few months later, the company sold their first spark plug.
Helen Barlett attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1927, at the age of 27. [1] Bartlett received an AC Spark Plug Division fellowship and went on to attend Ohio State University where she was a member of multiple prestigious honors societies including Phi Beta Kappa.
U.S. patent 774,250.The first US power plug and socket dated 1904. Several early American electrical plug and socket arrangements were invented by Harvey Hubbell.On 26 February 1903 he filed two patent applications featuring 2-pin plugs and adaptors for using his plugs with existing designs of lamp sockets and wall receptacles.
Coso artifact in 2018. The Coso artifact is an object falsely claimed by its discoverers to be a spark plug encased in a geode.Discovered on February 13, 1961, by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they were prospecting for geodes near the town of Olancha, California, it has long been claimed as an example of an out-of-place artifact. [1]