Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: /ˈdiːzəlˌ -səl/, German: [ˈdiːzl̩] ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer...
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The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated...
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also used to refer to diesel fuel. Diesel fuel originated from experiments conducted by German scientist and inventor Rudolf Diesel for his compression-ignition...
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Dutch pop/rock group Diesel (1942 film), a German film about Rudolf Diesel Diesel (game engine), a computer gaming technology Diesel, a former name of Brazilian...
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the working substance". In 1892 Rudolf Diesel patented an internal combustion engine inspired by the Carnot engine. Diesel knew a Carnot engine is an ideal...
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The term turbo-diesel, also written as turbodiesel and turbo diesel, refers to any diesel engine equipped with a turbocharger. As with other engine types...
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Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille is an award by the German Institute for Inventions (Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen [de], D.I.E.) in memory of Rudolf Diesel...
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diesel-electric locomotives and diesel-hydraulic. Early internal combustion locomotives and railcars used kerosene and gasoline as their fuel. Rudolf...
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novels and one nonfiction book about the disappearance and death of Rudolf Diesel, which the Wall Street Journal called an "excellent biography."[1] In...
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A diesel generator (DG) (also known as a diesel genset) is the combination of a diesel engine with an electric generator (often an alternator) to generate...
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Motor 250/400 (category Diesel engines by model)
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...
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Internal combustion engine (section Diesel cycle)
ignition (SI) engines. As early as 1900 the inventor of the diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel, was using peanut oil to run his engines. Renewable fuels are...
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Products included cast iron, firefighting pumps and textile machinery. Rudolf Diesel was educated in Augsburg and Munich and his works training was with...
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combustion engines known today) is an essay written by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. It was composed in 1892, and first published by Springer in 1893. A...
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Fürstenfeldbruck (redirect from Fürstenfeldbruck, Rudolf-Diesel-Ring (MVV))
Fürstenfeldbruck (German pronunciation: [fʏʁstn̩fɛltˈbʁʊk]) is a town in Bavaria, Germany, located 32 kilometres west of Munich. It is the capital of the...
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Weissner, and Paul Wegener. It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor of the diesel engine. It was one of a series of prestigious biopics...
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Biodiesel (redirect from Bio-diesel)
transesterification of vegetable oil in 1853, predating Rudolf Diesel's development of the diesel engine. Diesel's engine, initially designed for mineral oil, successfully...
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1879, Karl Benz patented a reliable two-stroke gas engine. In 1892, Rudolf Diesel developed the first compressed charge, compression ignition engine....
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Sulzer (manufacturer) (redirect from New Sulzer Diesel)
manufacturing. Rudolf Diesel worked for Sulzer in 1879 and in 1893 Sulzer bought certain rights to diesel engines. Sulzer built their first diesel engine in...
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blended with conventional diesel or processed into biodiesel, HVO or bioliquids for use under a wider range of conditions. Rudolf Diesel was the father of the...
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Four-stroke engine (redirect from Four-stroke Diesel cycle)
increased by first compressing the fuel mixture prior to its ignition, Rudolf Diesel wanted to develop a more efficient type of engine that could run on...
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SS Dresden (1896) (section Diesel's Disappearance)
the place of the 1913 disappearance of German engineer Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine. The ship was built in 1897 by the Earle Company...
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States. Rudolf Diesel demonstrated his engine, which could run on vegetable oils and ethanol, in 1895, but the widespread use of petroleum-based diesel engines...
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Fuel injection (section Diesel engines)
Brayton: air-blast injection.: 413 In 1894, Rudolf Diesel copied Brayton's air-blast injection system for the diesel engine, but also improved it.: 414 He...
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also invented by Rudolf Diesel (patented in 1893, DRP 82168), which is why Diesel is in fact the Diesel engine's inventor. However, Diesel never admitted...
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2018 she headed Karl Storz GmbH. She was among the recipients of the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille for 2004. In 2013, Storz was awarded the DAS medal from the...
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birthday of Rudolf Diesel in 2008 the Augsburg Railway Park hosted a large locomotive exhibition on Easter Monday on the theme of diesel locomotives....
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MAN Energy Solutions (redirect from MAN Diesel & Turbo SE)
(MAN). Between 1893 and 1897, MAN, in collaboration with Rudolf Diesel, developed the first diesel engine, a single-cylinder four-stroke engine, which achieved...
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Ferraris and is patented in the U.S. by Nikola Tesla. 1892 – Rudolf Diesel patents the Diesel engine (U.S. patent 608,845). 1899 – Ferdinand Porsche creates...
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Strasserism and its economics. A political and economic model developed by Rudolf Diesel and laid out in his 1903 book. Among the French far-right, solidarism...
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