Talk:Charles F. Kettering

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Confuses C.F. Kettering with son E.W. Kettering

The fifth chapter in "Later Career" clearly confuses C.F. with his son E.W. The statement "Let it suffice to say that I don't recall having any trouble with the dipstick" can be found in E.W's paper [1]. I don't believe C.F. did any work on large 2-stroke diesel engines.

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. --Quicksilver^{T @} 05:28, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Lead

This article fails to note Kettering's rôle in the introduction of lead into gasoline as an anti-knock ingredient. —SlamDiego_←T 06:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

→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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

External links

There are too many entries in the "External links" section. This needs to be narrowed down by deletion or inclusion in the body of the article and used as references. Otr500 (talk) 03:27, 3 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]