Bosch Automotive History 1897

1897

First successful installation of the Bosch low-voltage magneto ignition device in a motor vehicle.

Robert Bosch and his associate Arnold Zähringer successfully equipped a motor vehicle, a De Dion-Bouton three-wheeler, with a low-voltage magneto ignition device for the first time. Zähringer had an ingenious idea. He decided that the heavy armature did not have to oscillate at all. Instead, he assigned this task to a new part – a light and slender sleeve. This allowed the magneto ignition device to function at high speeds.