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  1. Nov 13, 2009 · Ketterings key-operated electric self-starting ignition system, introduced on Cadillac vehicles in 1912 and patented three years later, made automobiles far easier and safer to operate than ...

  2. Charles Ketterings quest for knowledge helped build better cars and better lives for millions of people. Kettering was born in 1876 in Loudonville, Ohio. He attended classes at the College of Wooster before earning his degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.

  3. Apr 1, 2019 · Charles Kettering was one of the most distinguished (and wealthiest) engineers of the twentieth century, serving for decades as the director of General Motors’ research division. He came from a humble beginning on a farm forty miles outside Columbus, Ohio, and got his start with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University ...

  4. Charles Kettering is not as famous as Edison, the Wright brothers, or Nicola Tesla, but every time you get in your car and take out your key to start it, Kettering is the reason you don’t take out a crank instead. The key operated self-starter is only one of the 182 patents Kettering had in his 82 years of life.

  5. Jun 27, 2018 · An engineer, industrial pioneer, and apostle of progress, Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958), first as an independent inventor and later as General Motors Corporation's research chief, conducted research which established him as one of the most creative Americans of his generation.

  6. Charles Franklin Kettering invented the first electrical ignition system and the self-starter for automobile engines and the first practical engine-driven generator. Born in an Ohio farmhouse, Kettering graduated from Ohio State University in 1904 as an engineer. He then joined the National Cash Register Company, where he oversaw development of ...

  7. lemelson.mit.edu › resources › charles-ketteringCharles Kettering | Lemelson

    His greatest honor came in 1998, when General Motors Institute was renamed Kettering University after “one of the century’s greatest inventors.”. Charles Franklin Kettering invented dozens of important devices, but he is best known as the founder of Delco, the comp.

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