Robert Bosch (1861 to 1942) was a German engineer, inventor and industrialist who founded the Bosch company in Stuttgart in 1886 as a workshop for precision mechanics and electrical engineering. After working in the United States for Thomas Edison and Sigmund Bergmann and then in London, he built low-voltage magneto ignition devices for stationary gas engines. In the 1890s his firm worked with Frederick Simms to adapt the magneto for motor vehicles, with a version patented and demonstrated on a de Dion tricycle in 1898, and orders followed from Gottlieb Daimler. Bosch introduced diesel fuel injection for motor vehicles in 1927 and grew the firm from a small automotive supplier into a multinational electronics group. He was among the first German industrialists to adopt the eight-hour working day and gave heavily to charity, including the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart.
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was a German business magnate, engineer, inventor and founder of the Bosch company
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Robert Bosch (23 September 1861-12 March 1942)
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was a German business magnate, engineer, inventor and founder of the Bosch company
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In January 1898, the new magneto was demonstrated on the tricycle and orders soon followed from Gottlieb Daimler.
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accepted the Eagle Shield of the Reich from President Von Hindenburg
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Bosch launched innovations for the motor vehicle, including diesel fuel injection in 1927.
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Bosch launched innovations for the motor vehicle, including diesel fuel injection in 1927.
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