INDUSTRY TECH — HISTORY OF TURBOCHARGING
Industry Tech — History of Turbocharging From our friends at Turbosmart While both Gottlieb Daimler and Rudolf Diesel were tinkering with forced induction in the late 19th century, the first patent for a practical turbocharger (applied for in 1896) belongs to a Swiss mechanical engineer Alfred Buchi (pictured below). The first mass-produced turbochargers came out…