Confusion and a lot of questions exist as to detonation and pre-ignition. Sometimes you hear mistaken terms like pre-detonation. Detonation is one phenomenon that is abnormal combustion. Pre-ignition is another phenomenon that is abnormal combustion.
Martha R. Herbert, PhD, MD, is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, a pediatric neuroscientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
Click Here to Return to the First Coston Page. Martha Coston: A Woman, a War, and a Signal to the World. ~ by Denise E. Pilato, Eastern Michigan University ~. Martha J. Coston (1829-1904), was an inventor and successful businesswoman during the second half of the 19th century. She made her mark with one invention, which she wrote about in her one book, an autobiography, A Signal Success.