WHAT HAPPENED TO KETTERING afterward doesn’t really have much to do with the battery or the electrical system (from the first self starter on the 1912 Cadillac until the introduction of the alternator to replace the generator in the 1960s automobile ignition and self starting systems were simply improvements of Kettering’s basic idea) but it […]
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User Friendly Batteries for Automobiles
THE FIRST FORD assembled in December 1902 had batteries twelve of them two sets of six each. Each battery was a 1.5 volt dry cell battery intended to make doorbells ring. Wired in series they produced 9 volts enough to produce the spark at the spark plug. The second set was carried for use when […]