Good morning,
The forecast for Whitewater calls for a rainy day with a high temperature of thirty-seven degrees.
Wired recalls that on this day in 1903, Starting Your Car Gets a Bit Easier:
Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter.
Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, but his early designs proved impractical. The need for this kind of starter for an internal combustion engine was obvious. Automobiles were getting larger, and hand-cranking — the method used to get the pistons moving in order to make ignition possible — was not only cumbersome, but physically demanding and potentially injurious.