In 1897 a customer asked Bosch to customize a three-wheeler with a magneto ignition system.
Robert Bosch tasked his factory manager, Arnold Zähringer, with finding a solution, which he delivered by making a fundamental design modification.
Until then, the electrical energy had been generated through the rotation or oscillation of an armature wound in copper within a magnetic field. The technology was capable of providing ignition at 100 rpm
Zähringer set it up so that a lightweight metallic sleeve surrounding the armature would rotate or oscillate instead, enabling a large number of ignition processes, sufficient in smaller, faster vehicle motors that operated at up to 1,000 rpm.
Jenatzy drove a Mercedes to victory in the Gordon Bennett Cup in Ireland in 1903 — thanks in part to the reliable Bosch ignition system, which stood up to the harshest conditions.
Bosch secretly supported the resistance against Adolf Hitler, and together with his closest associates saved victims of Nazi persecution from deportation.
He established his last will and testament in which he stipulated that the earnings of the company should be allocated to charitable causes.
His father ran a large progressive farm that included a brewery.
His nephew was future Nobel laureate.
On 24 May 1884, Bosch sailed for the United States, becoming an engineer under Thomas Edison and Sigmund Bergmann in New York. On 13 May 1885, Bosch sailed for London, where he found employment with Siemens Brothers. On 15 November 1886, he opened his own "Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering" in Stuttgart.
Bosch was greatly concerned about promoting occupational training. Prompted by his awareness of social responsibility, he was one of the first industrialists in Germany to introduce the eight-hour work day
Robert Bosch did not wish to profit from the armaments contracts awarded to his company during WWI. Instead, he donated several million German marks to charitable causes, including to the establishment of Stuttgart's Robert Bosch Hospital in 1940.
One of my ancestors, Henrik Bosch, 1493-1526 lived in Frankfurt, and Robert Bosch's ancestors were from the nearby Stuttgart area, though the efforts I've made in looking in Ancestry.com found that his ancestry haven't been thoroughy documented earlier than the late 1700s
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