| |
| | 17 Aug History: This Date |
 | | US Patent #1'150'523 is issued to Charles Kettering of Dayton, Ohio, for “Engine Starting Device”, the electric automobile self-starter. |
 | | The Cadillac was the first car to use the electric starter (17 Feb 1911), and Delco would later become a subsidiary of General Motors. |
 | | Incidentally, before he started working on cars, Kettering also invented a “Driving Mechanism for Cash Registers”, for which he received, on 08 June 1909, US Patent # 924,616, for which he had applied on 11 June 1906. |
| www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4aug/h4aug17.html (6443 words) |
|