biography
| name: |
Diesel, Rudolf (Christian Carl)
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pronunciation:
[deezl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1913)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in Paris, France. He studied at the Munich Polytechnic, and joined the refrigeration firm Linde in Paris in 1880. He moved to the Berlin branch in 1890, and continued his search for an efficient internal combustion engine. He patented a design in 1892 and, subsidized by the Krupp company, constructed a ‘rational heat motor’, demonstrating the first compression-ignition engine in 1897. He spent most of his life at his factory at Augsburg. He was lost overboard from the steamer Dresden while on his way to London. |
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