Definition of Charles Kettering

1. Noun. United States electrical engineer who made numerous automotive improvements (including the electric starter) (1876-1958).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Charles Kettering

Charles Franklin Peirce
Charles Frederick Menninger
Charles Frederick Worth
Charles Goodyear
Charles Grey
Charles Hardin Holley
Charles Henry Harrod
Charles Herbert Best
Charles I
Charles II
Charles IX
Charles James Fox
Charles Joseph Clark
Charles Kay Ogden
Charles Kettering (current term)
Charles L'Enfant
Charles Lamb
Charles Laughton
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Liston
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Louis de Secondat
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Charles M. Schulz
Charles Martin Hall
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Charles Menninger
Charles Munroe Schulz
Charles Peirce

Literary usage of Charles Kettering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Unholy Alliance: Priests, Rabbis and Conspirators Within the Temple of Doom by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1992)
"Charles Kettering was an authentic inventive genius, responsible for much to today's auto ignition, lights, starters and other electrical systems. ..."

2. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"131 Whitfield, Charles, Kettering, Northamptonshire 79 Whiteley, William, 157 Queen's Road, Bayswater 60, 125 Why te & Bradford, Victoria Foundry, Boness, ..."

3. Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang (2006)
"Charles Kettering, 1876-1958 - An inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. If he succeeds once, then he's in. ..."

4. Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes by Clement Scott (1870)
"Enter LUCY MAITLAND and Charles Kettering through centre. Lucy. So you really like the quiet life we lead here ? Cha. Yes, for a change, very much. Lucy. ..."

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