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Died. Robert Bosch, 80, bald, bearded German magneto king; in Stuttgart. A farmer's son, he developed a small electrical business in a backyard shop in Stuttgart into a $1,000,000 industry, based chiefly on the world-famed Bosch high-tension magneto, the Bosch auto horn, the Bosch lamp...
...Abbeville, Antwerp; sowed seeds in the fertile congestion of Berlin; weeded out Channel gun emplacements near Boulogne; fertilized with grimness barges on the coast, oil tanks and rail sidings throughout the German areas, and special objectives like the Bosch spark-plug factory at Stuttgart, the docks at Hamburg, Marelli magneto plant near Turin, an aluminum factory at Bitterfeld, huge power plants at Genoa...
...pattern of bombings in Germany proper since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry...
...last week with the fanfare appropriate to one of Germany's leading corporations was the 50th anniversary of the founding of Robert Bosch A. G. Happily the date coincided with the 75th birthday of its benevolent, snow-bearded founder, the man whose name throughout the mechanized world means magneto...
...Stuttgart that Robert Bosch first set himself up as a maker of magnetos with little capital except his ingenuity and training, part of which was gained in a short turn in the U. S. in Edison's laboratories. In early days the Bosch magneto was used on stationary internal combustion engines, was not adapted to an automobile until 1896. And it was not until Bosch began to make a high-tension magneto with high-tension spark plugs- a simplified ignition system-that Bosch became an international name. By 1912 he had made 1,000,000 magnetos...