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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.
1912: MAN builds the first double-acting piston two-stroke diesel engine. [84] 1912: The first locomotive with a diesel engine is used on the Swiss Winterthur–Romanshorn railway. [85] 1912: MS Selandia is the first ocean-going ship with diesel engines. [86] 1913: NELSECO diesels are installed on commercial ships and US Navy submarines. [87]
The V8 diesel engine wasn't offered again until 1999 when Mercedes-Benz introduced the 4-litre OM628 V8 diesel engine for its passenger vehicles. Audi followed in 2003 with its 4-litre V8 TDI . Mercedes-Benz ended the production in 2010, leaving Audi and Toyota ( 4.5-litre V8 ) to be the exclusive manufacturers of V8 diesels.
The International Harvester Company (IHC) has been building its own proprietary truck engines since the introduction of their first truck in 1907. International tended to use proprietary diesel engines. In the 1970s, IHC built the DVT 573 V-8 diesel of 240 and 260 hp (179 and 194 kW) but these were not highly regarded and relatively few were sold.
The Mercedes-Benz OM 138 is a diesel engine manufactured by Daimler-Benz. In total, 5,719 units were produced between 1935 and 1940. [1] [2] [A 1] It was the first diesel engine especially developed and made for a passenger car. The first vehicle powered by the OM 138 was the Mercedes-Benz W 138. [1]
Opposed-piston diesel engines are rare enough at this size, the rocker lever arrangement was almost unheard of. Probably the only engine using a similar arrangement was the pre-war Sulzer ZG9. [9] This was an opposed-piston engine with a choice of two, three and four cylinders (2ZG9, 3ZG9, 4ZG9); the two-cylinder version developed 120 bhp.
First known as the Rabbit pickup, it came with tiny 1.5- to 1.8-liter diesel or gas engines and managed scarcely 50 horsepower. But they were cool little grocery getters that still show up in the ...
1980: Detroit Diesel-Allison produced its first four-cycle engine. A few years later in the early 1980s diesel engine production split off as Detroit Diesel Division while turbine engines remained as Allison Division. 1987: The Series 60 — the four-cycle heavy-duty engine for which the company is well known — was introduced. It was the ...