Talk:Charles F. Kettering/Archives/2014

All-electric starting inventor?
This is in conflict with Automobile self starter. According to that article, the electric starter was invented and patented by Clyde J. Coleman. Kettering improved it and made it practical for mass-production at General Motors. --QuicksilverT @ 05:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Charles Kettering
 * Automobile Starter
 * Pat. No. 1,150,523
 * Filed: June 15, 1911
 * Issued: August 17, 1915
 * Title: Engine Starting Device
 * Patent Assignee: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (Delco), Dayton, Ohio
 * Automobile Ignition System
 * Pat. No. 1,171,055
 * Filed: April 17, 1911
 * Issued: February 8, 1916
 * Title: Engine Starting, Lighting, and Ignition System
 * Patent Assignee: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (Delco), Dayton, Ohio


 * David 21:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Citing sources
Interestingly enough we have a conflict between this article and another on the topic of the automobile starter. It would seem that many statements need to be removed from this article if someone cannot find citations for them. Alan.ca 00:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Byon Carter of cartercars died in 1908 but the bell island starter story say in the winter of 1910 he was helping crank start a car - car backfired hit him in the jaw causing his death. He was already dead for 2 years where is the misconnect?? Jbieber2001 (talk) 20:06, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Lead
This article fails to note Kettering's rôle in the introduction of lead into gasoline as an anti-knock ingredient. —SlamDiego&#8592;T 06:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

→Added today. Also removed the fluff that was added by 67.208.172.2 which IMHO didn't add anything. Removed text was: ''But Kettering's influence went beyond the inventions themselves. As noted at Kettering's retirement by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., President of General Motors and Kettering's longtime patron, Kettering's contributions to the company were both tangible and intangible: "I would say that the intangible side of it, if it could be evaluated, has meant more to all of us than all the tangible things, important as they are."'' --11:27, 8 August 2014 (UTC)80.169.46.101 (talk)

Death
Article fails to mention cause of death.

Death
Article fails to mention cause of death.62.203.201.161 (talk) 20:36, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Links:Wikiquote
The automatic wikiquote link is failing, because there the page is "Charles Kettering" and the link to wikiquote is "Charles F. Kettering" as is in/from wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Consci (talk • contribs) 06:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)