Editing Spark plug (section)

==History==
In 1860 [[Étienne Lenoir]] used an electric spark plug in his [[gas engine]], the first internal combustion piston engine. Lenoir is generally credited with the invention of the spark plug.<ref>
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{{cite book
 | last1 = Denton
 | first1 = Tom
 | chapter = Development of the automobile electrical system
 | title = Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X3l0MMSMoXUC
 | edition = revised
 | publisher = Routledge
 | date = 2013
 | page = 6
 | isbn = 9781136073823
 | access-date = 2018-08-20
 | quote = 1860[:] Lenoir produced the first spark-plug.
}}
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<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hemmings.com/magazine/hcc/2006/01/Albert-Champion/1281809.html |title=Albert Champion |website=[[Hemmings Motor News|Hemmings]] |access-date=February 6, 2019 |first=Jim |last=Donnelly |date=January 2006 }}</ref>

Early patents for spark plugs included those by [[Nikola Tesla]] (in {{US patent|609250}} for an ignition timing system, 1898), [[Frederick Richard Simms]] (GB 24859/1898, 1898) and [[Robert Bosch]] (GB 26907/1898). Only the invention of the first commercially viable high-voltage spark plug as part of a [[ignition magneto|magneto]]-based [[ignition system]] by Robert Bosch's engineer [[Gottlob Honold]] in 1902 made possible the development of the [[spark-ignition engine]]. Subsequent manufacturing improvements can be credited to [[Albert Champion (cyclist)|Albert Champion]],<ref>{{cite web
  |url= http://www.asecc.com/data/plughistory.html
  |title= A.S.E.C.C.'s History of Spark Plugs
  |publisher= Asecc.com |date=1927-10-27
  |access-date= 2011-09-17
}}</ref> to the [[Alexander Lodge|Lodge brothers]], sons of Sir [[Oliver Lodge]], who developed and manufactured their father's idea<ref>{{cite web
  |url= http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/Lodge_Plugs
  |title= Lodge Plugs
  |publisher= Gracesguide.co.uk |date= 2011-08-30 |access-date= 2011-09-17
}}</ref> and also to [[Kenelm Lee Guinness]], of the [[Guinness family|Guinness brewing family]], who developed the KLG brand.
Helen Blair Bartlett played a vital role in making the insulator in 1930.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/auto.htm|title= Women in Transportation - Automobile Inventions|website= [[Federal Highway Administration|Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)]]|url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160623204759/http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/wit/auto.htm|archive-date= 2016-06-23}}
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