Spark plugs help you start gasoline engines and glow plugs do the same in diesel engines. But how do they go about providing ...

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Designed to be combined with a high-tension magneto ignition system, the spark plug solved what Carl Benz had described as ‘the most fundamental obstacle to early motoring’. Over a century later, the ...