Rudolf Diesel

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Rudolf Diesel - German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)

Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel

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1858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the diesel engine, was born in Paris.

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| 1858: Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the diesel engine, was born in Paris.

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The company was founded in 1912 by a group of Belgian entrepreneurs soon after building the first licensed Rudolf Diesel engine.

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Internationally, August 10 is observed as " World Bio Diesel Day" in Germany and many other countries to mark the demonstration of the diesel engine by Rudolf Diesel on various vegetable oils way back in 1893.

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GALLIPOLI MEMORIAL DAY (TURKEY) 1858: Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the diesel engine, was born in Paris.

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Rudolf Diesel's brilliance and diligence were recognized in formative years by mentors and by industrial giants at the height of his career.

Rudolf Diesel--happy 150th birthday: despite his turbulent personal life and his mysterious end, Diesel's engine remains the workhorse of the world

Diesel's named after German Rudolf Diesel, who patented it in 1893.

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Rudolf Diesel of Munich spent 13 years working on what would be the first internal combustion engine.

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He was perfectly in line with Rudolf Diesel's thinking, but slightly off base by a hundred odd years.

Is biodiesel really good for the North? The technology may still be too "green" to make economical sense in our region

It's not a new idea; the inventor of the diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel himself, envisioned a day when peanut farmers would supply peanut oil to power his new machines.