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Driving.co.uk ranked it #14 on their list of the 23 ugliest cars ever made, [136] Auto Express ranked it #5 on their list of the ten ugliest cars ever made, [137] and Drive.com.au included in their article on the worst cars of the 20th century, calling it "one of the silliest-looking cars of the century". [138]
In a book titled Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work, [35] Diesel said that "In 1900 a small Diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto company which, on the suggestion of the French Government, was run on arachide [peanut] oil, and operated so well that very few people were aware of the fact. The motor was built for ordinary oils, and without ...
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).
Nordberg's distinctive design of diesel pancake engine, used for pumping. The company was founded by Bruno V. Nordberg and Jacob Elias Friend in 1886 in Milwaukee. Nordberg had previously been working at steam engine and sawmill maker E. P. Allis & Co. [2] Friend became the company's president, [3] and later his son, Robert E. Friend, was president and chief executive officer.
"The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama" alleges to be the "ultimate guide to Obama's real record - the record he'd like history to forget." Show comments Advertisement
The Book of Heroic Failures, written by Stephen Pile in 1979, is a book written in celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms. Entries include William McGonagall , a notoriously bad poet, and Teruo Nakamura , a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army who fought for Japan in World War II until 1974.
It killed 76 people, and remains the worst accident, in terms of lives lost, in Singapore's post-war history. It is also Singapore's worst industrial accident. February 24, 1984: Occurred on the night in Cubatao, Brazil around 23:30 a gasoline pipeline exploded in the favela of Vila Sao Jose killing at least 508 people, most of them children.
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