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On Feb. 23, 1892, Rudolf Diesel obtained German patent RP 67207 for an internal combustion engine that required no ignition source and proved over time far more mechanically efficient than ...

Diesel engine inventor Rudolf Diesel’s disappearance and death was ruled a suicide, but theories point to foul play ...

Two mysteries, one big, the other small and local, shroud the memory of Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine. The larger mystery centers around his 1913 disappearance from a steamship crossing ...

“No inventor was more disruptive to the established order than Rudolf Diesel,” writes historian and novelist Brunt (Trophy Son) in this thrilling investigation. The French-German inventor of the ...

Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere—on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; ...

The diesel engine was a revelation when it first entered the market in the early 1900s, and has since had a number of variations that led to improvements.