no doubt in our internal combustion filled lives we've all had to deal with one or more of these. Spark Plugs. can't live without them. the first spark plug was invented{supposedly, i can find no definite proof}in 1839 by one Edmond Berger. most early plugs as well as most early internal combustion engines were made in France. Albert Champion whose name most will recognize was a Frenchman who moved to the US in the early part of the twentieth century and started the Champion Ignition Company in 1904. after being run off by his investors, who kept the Champion name he started A.C. which was backed by the Buick Automobile Co. in 1908. Buick of course was later taken over by General Motors and after the death of Albert Champion in 1927 GM became the sole owner of A.C. Autolite didn't come along until 1935 when Royce G. Martin president of Electric Autolite Co. had a lab built for the development of an Autolite Sparkplug. of course there are many other brands of sparkplugs such as Lodge, NGK, Bosch and etc. 
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