I just found an old photograph I shot in a museum. It shows a fuel injector protruding into the combustion chamber of a cutaway engine. Things I've seen and learned since that day have made this old picture tell a new story that explains how an old technology has come full circle.rnFuel injection was first tried in the 1890s, but it wasn't developed for gasoline engines until 40 years later. The Daimler Benz DB601 - a 4-valve, V-12 aircraft engine first built in Germany in 1934 - was fitted with direct fuel injection.
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