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  2. Rudolf Diesel - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: / ˈ d iː z əl ˌ-s əl /, [1] German: ⓘ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German [note 1] inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.

  3. History of the internal combustion engine - Wikipedia

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    [17]: p. 394 The essay discusses several concepts that led to the invention of the diesel engine. 1897: The first functional diesel engine – called the Motor 250/400 and designed by Rudolf Diesel – is built by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg in Germany. 1897: The first flat engine is built by Carl Benz.

  4. Diesel engine - Wikipedia

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    1952 Shell Oil film showing the development of the diesel engine from 1877. The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

  5. List of German inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1893: Diesel engine, diesel fuel and biodiesel by Rudolf Diesel in Augsburg [583] 1893: Zeppelin, the first rigid airship, [584] by Ferdinand von Zeppelin [585] 1894: Lilienthal Normalsegelapparat, the first aeroplane to be serially produced, by Otto Lilienthal [586] [587] 1895: Internal combustion engine bus by Daimler [588]

  6. Timeline of motor and engine technology - Wikipedia

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    1816 – Robert Stirling invented his hot air Stirling engine, and what we now call a "regenerator". [5] [6] 1821 – Michael Faraday builds an electricity-powered motor. 1824 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot first publishes that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the temperature difference between an engine and its environment.

  7. Motor 250/400 - Wikipedia

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    The Motor 250/400 is the first functional diesel engine. It was designed by Rudolf Diesel, and drawn by Imanuel Lauster. The workshop of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg built two units, the A-Motor, and the B-Motor. The latter has been on static display at the Deutsches Museum in Munich since testing it came to an end.

  8. List of German inventors and discoverers - Wikipedia

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    Gottlieb Daimler: He invented the first high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile, also the first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. Adolf "Adi" Dassler: Sports shoes with and without spikes; founder of Adidas. Rudolf Dassler: First sport shoes with screw-in shoe spikes, 1949; founder of Puma.

  9. History of Sulzer diesel engines - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Diesel was educated in Augsburg and Munich and his works training was with Sulzer, [1] and his later co-operation with Sulzer led to the construction of the first Sulzer diesel engine in 1898. In 2015, the Sulzer company lives on but it no longer manufactures diesel engines, having sold the diesel engine business to Wärtsilä in 1997 ...