Diesel engines have offered a fuel efficient alternative to gasoline powered engines for decades. So what was the first car ...

Also recently named a Best of 2023 Staff Pick by Apple Books, The Mysterious Case tells the true story of Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, who vanished into thin air on the ...

For more than a century, the Diesel engine has been the backbone of heavy industry. The internal combustion engine that ignites fuel by heating it up through compression powers everything from ...

The engine that bears his name earned him a fortune in royalties, and the German engineer and inventor Rudolf Diesel was apparently doing well when he boarded a steamship from Belgium to England ...

The diesel engine took the automotive world by storm, powering everything from cars to industrial machinery. The first patent came at the end of the 1800s.

Rudolf Diesel battled manic depression and migraines his whole life. By 1903, he was rich but was losing control of his patents-and his mind. His doctors told him to take a break.

Patent deals in Germany and Great Britain netted Rudolf Diesel royalties of 70,000 marks a year. In addition, a German company paid him a lump sum of 1,250,000 marks plus a block of stock.

Rudolf Diesel was the second of three children born to Theodor and Elise Diesel on March 18, 1858 in the city of Paris, France. The son of German-born immigrant.

Rudolf Diesel's engine came a little late to the internal combustion party. Patents were first issued in the mid-1890s. But after commercial and shipping use, diesel engines were first dropped ...

Diesel's legacy and future. Gaschwald/Shutterstock. ... Rudolf Diesel, who patented his first-of-its-kind compression ignition engine in the 1890s. Unlike gasoline engines, ...

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