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Kettering's electric self-starter wins patent protection

Charles Kettering with the self-starter. (GM/Contact)
JW
By:
Jack Walsworth
August 16, 2016 05:00 AM

Charles Kettering, after introducing the first electric self-starter in 1911, receives a patent for the device on Aug. 17, 1915.

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