On Ferdinand Porsche’s 150th birthday, we remember one of his least well -known inventions

You can tell Ferdinand Porsche that was busy with traction in the 1930s. The ruling Nazi Party wanted to prove the technical power of Germany in the Grand Prix, so the obstacles to money full of money pushed Mercedes and Auto Union, which the latter built a series of cars designed by Porsche.

The species A, B and C have horse capacity as no one had seen at all, thanks to the ultra-charging V-16 charging installed behind the driver. It is called P-Lagen, after the Old Man Porsche, the first series of series, type A 1933 of 295 hp; After a year, type B 1934 375 hp; Made C 1935 C amazing 520.

For decades, racing engines exceeded the structure and tires per day, and it may have been no more honest than automatic unions. In his book GP auto 16 cylindersCyril Posthumous describe drivers with wheels in these cars at more than 100 mph. Or at 160 mph in the wet. Rollers

Needless to say, traction was a problem. Like any good engineer, Porsche aims to fix it.

Porsche actually An early patent was made from the limited teams in 1933And working with the ZF-from the eight-speed automatic fame today-making the two unit that appeared for the first time in the 1935 AUTO Federation, and also used a type C version of the type C with dual rear wheels because, at that time, one of the tires did not do widely enough to deal with the V-16 trend.

LSD has proven effective and became more common after the war. But there was something else that Porsche was looking at in the 1930s that was before his time, it was almost unbelievable – the control of attraction.

Porsche applied for a German patent, De 695718c1937 of the traction control and receiving system in 1940. it is not immediate A system called Max-Trac in 1971. So Porsche was about 35 years before the curve.

Concilious, the system describes the Porsche in the patent just like the traditional traction control system in a two -wheeled vehicle. You have a type of devices that compare the wheels that you move and not preserved, and if the last first exceeds, you reduce the torque of the engine. Buick for 1971-and many cars that follow-wheel speed sensors are all connected to a computer. If the computer sees a big difference, it sends a signal to the engine to reduce the torque. That sends the data that is explained by a type of type.

Porsche patent describes three different variables of the traction control system: those that use a differential mechanism, which uses hydraulic, and the other that uses electricity. Each of them mainly searches for paid rear axle speeds and an unspecified anterior axis. If the speed of the rear wheels exceed the speed of the front wheels, the comparison provides a series of hooks associated with the engine.

Therefore, basically, a 100 percent mechanical traction control system.

Even the Porsche electric comparison describes it uses a generator for each axis, with the voltage created by its rotation. If the voltage is uneven, the comparison operates a crane and illuminates a bulb on an outbreak, allowing the driver to know that the traction control system is active. Electric, but not electronic.

To this day, this is mainly how traction control works. Now, you have the speed sensors for each wheel that provides data. Electronic controls regulate the torque product in the internal combustion engine, not only by operating the suffocating, but through the timing of the spark as well.

The electric traction engines in the hybrid and EVS can control the exit of the torque in the source with incredibly accurately. We also have traction control systems that integrate with stability control, benefit from brakes, or perhaps differential modifications or suspension in the most advanced vehicles to ensure stability.

However, Porsche had the correct idea. In 1937.

This is not known between Porsche’s inventions. It is not clear if he had experienced it ever on a car on the road. The outbreak of World War II has ended effectively to the Grand Prix race for some time, and the Allied Ferdinand threw prison after that. Porsche clearly had an effective role in developing the proposed Nazi people’s car, and Wagen KDF, which became the Volkswagen beetle, and other military vehicles.

like Explains a history of the German Patent Office and brands“Porsche also used forced workers at the Volkswagen factory, until they were actively requested and were completely aware of their deadly working conditions.”

The story-which was where I learned for the first time about the patent of traction control-do not make any bones about the fact that the Nazi Porsche relations are archaeological and his family, the same family that has VW to this day.

Porsche was acquitted in 1948. At almost the same time, his son Ferry created the Porsche company that we know today in Austria, created 356. Ferdinand died in 1951 in Stuttgart, 75.

Today it coincides with the 150th anniversary of its birth. Ferdinand Porsche’s legacy is difficult to calculate. An indisputable engineering genius and influence still feels today. And collusion with one of the most brutal systems in history.

On his 150th birthday, we must recognize the intelligence and effect of Ferdinand Porsche, and the reality of who was, and the gospel that he made.