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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.
SS Dresden was a British passenger ship which operated, as such, from 1897 to 1915. She is known as the place of the 1913 disappearance of German engineer Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine.
Rudolf Diesel: Inventor of the diesel engine 1893. Gerhard Domagk: Discovery of what would become the first commercially available antibiotic. Christian Doppler: Discovered the Doppler effect. Walter Robert Dornberger: Co-inventor of the V-2 rocket. Karl Drais: Inventor of the bicycle and typewriter (1821) among other things.
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Diesel is a 1942 German biographical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, and Paul Wegener. It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel , the German inventor of the diesel engine . [ 1 ]
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 ...
2007: Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille by the German Institute for Inventions; 2008: Alwin-Walther-Medal; 2008: Honorary senator of the Heidelberg College of Education; 2009: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) 2010: Honorary doctorate of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
The Sudeten German surname Porsche can be traced to the 18th century in the area of Reichenberg, Bohemia (now Liberec, Czech Republic). [4] The surname originates with the German word Bursche ("boy, young man, apprentice, farmhand") and is on record in northern Bohemia in various spellings (Porsch, Borsche, Borsch, Bursche, Bursch, Pursch, Pursche, etc.) from the early 17th century.