Charles Franklin Kettering invented the first automobile electrical ignition system and the first practical engine-driven generator. In 1873, George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an ...
QUESTION Who invented Scalextric? Was it the first electric race car set? In 1912, New York toymaker Lionel Co. launched the first electric slot car racing set, featuring heavy tinplate cars ...
French physicist Gaston Plane invented commercial rechargeable lead-acid batteries in 1859, but it was English firm Elwell and Parker that created the first useable electric cars – or rather ...