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This documentary explores how French bicycle champion Albert Champion revolutionized spark plug technology by introducing ceramic porcelain insulators in 1907, founding both the Champion Spark Plug Company and AC Spark Plug Company after a bitter business split. The story traces the evolution from early fragile porcelain through Champion's monopoly on sillimanite insulators (1921-1945) to the universal adoption of sintered alumina after World War II, showing how one man's technical obsession enabled the entire automotive and aviation industries through a century of competition between two companies bearing his name.

SOURCES:
Hagerty Media: "How Albert Champion(ed) Two Major Spark Plug Brands" (January 2024)
Automotive Hall of Fame biographical records
Wikipedia entries for Champion spark plugs and Albert Champion
Dr. C.M. Helm-Clark: "A Brief History of Mineral-Derived Spark Plug Insulators" (April 2019)
Wiley Ceramic Transactions: "Alumina Insulators for High Voltage Automotive Ignition Systems" (2016)
MadeHow.com industrial process documentation
Collectors Car World: "Automotive History: Albert Champion's Spark Plugs" (January 2024)
TIME Magazine archives: "Business & Finance: Death of Champion" (1927)
Model T Ford Forum historical discussions
Graces Guide industrial history archives

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