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[George M. Dailey]

As the story goes, the Electrical engineers supervisor was not very thrilled
with the system. He was quoted as saying, "...it cost twenty times as much
as a carburator and is almost as good!"

As Michal Faraday said to the Royal Institute, "For what use is a new born
baby."

GMD

At 10:13 AM 10/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>-> Once upon a time (around 1953..I think), in a galexy far far away, an
>-> electrical engineer proposed using electronics to meter fuel into an
>-> engine. The mechanicle engineers who heard this thought it was a
>-> joke. The EE took them for a ride in his electronicly injected '53
>-> buick and the rest is history. Yes, that was in 1953AD.
>
> Ah, that would've been the Bendix Electrojector.  I believe Bosch
>licensed that technology while Detroit played with Rochester's
>mechanical injection system.
>
> As I remember the Electrojector was a box about the size of a medium TV
>set and consumed almost as much power.  Looking back with the advantage
>of history we can see how it was a marvelous indicator of things to
>come.  However, the engineers who laughed were right - electronic fuel
>injection could never have been more than a toy given the technology of
>the day.  And even then analog EFI was a side road.
>
> It took several major technological advances before EFI-as-we-know-it
>could be developed, none of which could have been forseen in 1953.
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George M. Dailey
gmd at tecinfo.com