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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Half-Hour History of Turbochargers

Posted September 15, 2009 9:03 AM by dstrohl

Funny how history repeats itself. During the fuel crises of the 1970s, many automotive engineers latched on to turbochargers as a means of reducing weight and thus saving fuel while maintaining the power outputs we're used to. During the fuel crisis of the last couple years, turbochargers suddenly became en vogue again.

But as Jan P. Norbye wrote for SIA #53, October 1979, turbochargers have been around for much longer than that, mostly in planes, but also in diesel-powered trucks and automobiles of the 1960s.

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09/16/2009 8:55 AM

I scanned the whole article. IMHO the advances in supercharging have rendered turbocharging obsolete. The fundamental problem with turbos is that there has never been a satisfactory resolution to the lubrication problem of spinning turbo-sections at high speed. Although there have been many improvements, it is still the Achilles heel of turbo technology. Superchargers, on the other hand, have made significant improvements in their technology and get my vote for "state of the art" forced induction.

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