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[Shannen Durphey]

Dave Williams 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.

 From TV sized injection to injector sized TV's.