As the engines in America's production automobiles become more powerful with each succeeding year, it becomes increasingly difficult for engine and accessory designers to cope with some of the ...

F. R. HAIGH has recently compared the relative advantages of magneto and coil ignition used for generating the explosions which occur in motor-car engines (Students' Quart. J. Inst. Elec. Eng., Dec.).

In ignition system for any type of spark-ignited internal com-/I bustion engine has one basic job and that is to create an * electrical discharge at the engine's spark plugs that will ignite the ...

IN many internal combustion engines the ignition of the explosive mixture is effected by means of an electric spark which is produced by a small machine called a magneto. The great demand for these ...

[Dan] wanted to learn a bit about solid state ignition in engines; to get started he needed a test subject, so he decided he would upgrade his old 12 horsepower lawnmower. Originally the lawnmower ...