Gottlob Honold

Gottlob Honold ( born August 26, 1876 in Langenau, † March 17, 1923 in Stuttgart) was a senior engineer at Robert Bosch Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering.

His merit, with whom he has made in the history of technology and the automotive engineering, is the invention of high-voltage magneto ignition in 1902, which only allowed the construction of high-speed gasoline engines.

Curriculum vitae

Honolds father was a teacher in Langenau and his brother, the engineer Robert Honold. The place is 17 km north-east of Ulm and is a neighbor of Robert Bosch's birthplace Albeck, which is a district of Langenau since the administrative reform in 1972. The fathers of Gottlob Honold and Robert Bosch were known to each other.

Gottlob Honold attended the Real Gymnasium in Ulm. Before he began studying engineering, he made the wish of his father, following, from 1891 an apprenticeship at Robert Bosch Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering in Stuttgart. Then Gottlob Honold studied at the Technical University in Stuttgart. During his studies he became a member of the fraternity Landsmannschaft Saxonia.

After graduating in 1901 Honold Robert Bosch took on offer to become technical director at him and he was given the task to improve the low-voltage magneto ignition for internal combustion engines.

After a few months, the new high -voltage magneto went into series production. Daimler -Motoren-Gesellschaft ordered it immediately and could with her ​​car soon after set new speed records.

The Honoldweg in Stuttgart -West was named after him.

Inventions

Gottlob Honold was involved in all the technical innovations in the years 1901 to 1923 the work of Robert Bosch:

His invention of the high-voltage magneto ignition enabled the rapid rise of the Bosch in Stuttgart.

Furthermore, he developed was a headlight with reflective metal mirrors and a range of 200 meters in series, Bosch 1913. Even in the development of well-known as the "Bosch horn " horn he was involved.

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