America Had No Spark Plugs in 1917 — So Champion Built Ceramic Cores That Survived 2,000°F

In 1917, the U.S. military faced a hidden catastrophe: they were declaring war on Germany while being 100% dependent on German Bosch technology for the one component every engine needed to breathe—the spark plug. This is the untold story of how a French immigrant’s radical '2,000°F ceramic core' didn’t just solve a WWI crisis, but became the industrial backbone for the legendary engines of World War II. Without this engineering breakthrough, the high-altitude B-29 bombers and P-51 Mustangs that won the second war would have quite literally never started. Watch until the end to see how a small ceramic insulator shifted the global balance of power and out-engineered the best of German technology.