Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel Facts
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel Facts
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| Rudolf Diesel was born in Paris, France and was the second of three children. |
| His parents were Bavarian immigrants and were forced to leave Paris in 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War broke out. |
| They immigrated to London and Diesel was soon sent to Augsburg live with his uncle. |
| He attended the Konigliche Kreis-Gewerbsschule where his uncle was a mathematics teacher. |
| He graduated at the top of his class in 1873 and entered the Industrial School of Augsburg. |
| In 1875 he was given a merit scholarship by the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic of Munich. |
| He became ill with typhoid and was unable to graduate with his class. |
| After his recovery he worked at the Sulzer Brothers Machine Works in Winterthur, Switzerland while waiting for the next examination date. |
| In 1880 Diesel graduated with highest honors and moved to Paris. |
| There he worked with his former professor, Carl Von Linde, on the design and construction of a modern refrigeration plant. |
| In 1890 he moved to Berlin to accept the position of manager of the research department of Linde's corporation. |
| Diesel began working with steam and researching fuel and thermal efficiency. |
| A near fatal laboratory accident with an exploding engine put him in the hospital for months and left him with vision problems. |
| In 1886 Diesel published a paper titled Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat-engine to Replace the Steam Engine and Combustion Engines Known Today. |
| Diesel received several German and American patents for his new engine design. |
| On September 29, 1913 Diesel left Antwerp aboard a steam ship for a meeting of the Consolidated Diesel Manufacturing Company in London. |
| He left word that he was to be awakened at 6:15 am but his stateroom was empty, his bed had not been slept in and he was never seen alive again. |
| Ten days later a corpse was seen floating in the ocean and it was suspected that Diesel had committed suicide. |
| The diesel engine was developed further and replaced the steam engine in most applications. |
| Because it is far stronger than the gasoline engine, it is preferred in applications requiring high torque such as in trains and trucks. |
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