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By Car Parts Sales at 04/19/07 12:46
 - An automobile self starter is an electric motor that initiates piston motion in a car's internal combustion engine before it can power itself.
- Originally, a hand crank was used to start engines, but it was inconvenient and rather hard work to crank the engine up to speed. It was also highly dangerous.
- In 1903, United States Patent No. 745,157 was issued to Clyde J. Coleman of New York City for an electric automobile self-starter.
- A license to Coleman's invention was purchased by the Delco Company, later acquired by the General Motors Corporation.
- Coincidentally, the death of a friend from complications due to a jaw broken while hand-cranking his automobile impelled engineer Charles Kettering to replace the hand crank with an electric starter.
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