Diesel – What is it?
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. Rudolf Diesel built an improved prototype engine in early 1897 while working at the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg (from 1906 onward, the MAN) plant at Augsburg. Diesel's engine had some similarities with an engine invented by Herbert Akroyd Stuart in 1890. Diesel was embroiled for some years in various patent disputes and arguments over priority but in the end he prevailed and his invention came to be called the Diesel engine. He continued its development over the next three years, began production (the first commercial engine was at a brewery in the United States), and secured licenses from firms in several countries. He became a millionaire. When Rudolf Diesel introduced his new engine at the 1900 Paris Exposition, he just said two words as he started that: "Vegetable oil." He'd designed his engine so farmers could grow their own fuel. Most diesel engines were indeed run on vegetable oil until the 1920s, when the petroleum industry promoted a gasoline byproduct as diesel fuel.Diesel – What is it?
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German inventor, famous for the inventi...all »Diesel – What is it?
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German inventor, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. Rudolf Diesel built an improved prototype engine in early 1897 while working at the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg (from 1906 onward, the MAN) plant at Augsburg. Diesel's engine had some similarities with an engine invented by Herbert Akroyd Stuart in 1890. Diesel was embroiled for some years in various patent disputes and arguments over priority but in the end he prevailed and his invention came to be called the Diesel engine. He continued its development over the next three years, began production (the first commercial engine was at a brewery in the United States), and secured licenses from firms in several countries. He became a millionaire. When Rudolf Diesel introduced his new engine at the 1900 Paris Exposition, he just said two words as he started that: "Vegetable oil." He'd designed his engine so farmers could grow their own fuel. Most diesel engines were indeed run on vegetable oil until the 1920s, when the petroleum industry promoted a gasoline byproduct as diesel fuel.«
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