The origins of Bosch as a supplier of automotive equipment go back to 1887. This was the year in which, on behalf of a customer, the 25-year-old electrician and precision mechanic built a product that ...

Coil ignition was prominent on the early types of petrol engines, but magnetos appeared on the market and for a number of years prior to 1914 a Bosch magneto was regarded as the acme of perfection.

This simple, mechanically driven power source is nearly 200 years old and still has a well-defined, albeit limited, role in today’s systems. Most of the historical and present-day applications for ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first commercially viable high-voltage spark plug, patented in 1902 by German automotive pioneer Robert Bosch, who designed it as part of a magneto-based ...

Early sportscar engines mostly used magneto ignition. The faster engines of the day could reach 5000rpm or more but the coil ignition systems of the period could not be relied upon to maintain ...