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In the summer of 1901, Robert Bosch gave his engineer Gottlob Honold the brief of designing a magneto ignition system without the break-spark rodding which was unreliable. After just a few months, Honold presented his high-voltage magneto ignition system, based on what was known as electric arc ignition. By means of two coils on the armature, it generated a high-voltage current. This was conducted to a spark plug via a simple cable connection. The high-voltage current jumped the gap between its electrodes in the form of a spark.