Photo Gallery «From supercharger to turbocharger - a good boost is half the battle ...»
Nowadays, almost every manufacturer of petrol or diesel engines relies on the turbocharger to increase performance, but at the beginning of the 1970s this was still the exception rather than the rule. However, there was already decades of experience with the supercharger. Both technologies had similar goals and led to impressive increases in engine performance, but the path was different. This article takes a look back at the beginnings and heyday of the supercharger and looks at the progress made with the turbocharger at the beginning of the 1970s.
Two-stroke engine with compressor according to Arnold Zoller in 1924
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