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To a 1910 industrialist acid batteries were exotic chemistry. Don't forget IC cars were hand-cranked during this time, and magnetos for spark plugs only came in
by tomatotomato37 7y ago
To a 1910 industrialist acid batteries were exotic chemistry. Don't forget IC cars were hand-cranked during this time, and magnetos for spark plugs only came into commercial availablity 4 years before this article is based. It took another decade for starter motors and auxiliary electronics to make their way into IC automobiles.
Basic commericially avaliable electronics were cutting-edge back then.
- rightbyte 7y agoThe gasoline engine was probably equally exotic. Sulfuric acid has been manufactured since to 18th century. And you don't need permanent magnets to make a DC motor. And electrical motors were even used to power vehicles before Otto constructed his gasoline engine. I guess heat engines just were something people were more used to? Going from steam to gasoline seems like a smaller step.