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2024-02-04 13:03:21 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 36DED4B563946682F452DDC364BB149CE7ABCC9223ABE84A5B24335F4477F12C
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There is no such patent attributed to Edmond Berger (1). State of internal combustion engines at that time suggest that this date could not even be possible (2). Belgian-French engineer Étienne Lenoir is generally credited for this invention (3). (1) https://patents.google.com/?inventor=edmond+berger&oq=inventor:(edmond+berger) (2) https://www.thoughtco.com/inventors-of-the-spark-plug-4074529#:~:text=Some%20historians%20have%20reported%20that,the%20early%20days%20of%20experimentation. (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_plug
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