Alexander Marshall Lodge (1881–1938) was an
English
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inventor who did early work and held some
patent
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s on the
spark plug. He and his brother Brodie (1880–1967) founded a company, Lodge Bros, in 1903 - which eventually, following a merger with the
Mascot Company
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in 1913, was renamed
Lodge Plugs Ltd
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; it was based in
Rugby
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,
Warwickshire
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. Much of their work was developed from research by their father,
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his ...
.
Alec Lodge died on 17 February 1938, aged 56.
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History of Lodge Plugs
1881 births
1938 deaths
People from Rugby, Warwickshire
20th-century British inventors
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