The German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) is remembered for the compression-ignition internal combustion engine which bears his name. Rudolf Diesel was born March 18, 1858, in Paris. His interest in mechanics was early roused by frequent...

Rudolf Diesel was born in Paris, France, on March 18, 1858, the son of Bavarian Germans from Augsburg. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, the family was expelled from France and they moved to London. His father sent the young Diesel...

Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel was a German thermal engineer and inventor of the high-efficiency internal-combustion engine that bears his name. Much of Diesel's life and brilliant career was tragic—from his business failings, to his...

1858-1913 German engineer who devised an internal combustion engine named after him. Based on his theoretical engineering education in Munich and his association with German refrigeration engineer Carl von Linde, Diesel recognized the potential for an...

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel [ˈʁuː.dɔlf ˈkʁɪs.tjan kaʁl ˈdiː.zəl] (March 18, 1858 – September 30, 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel...

During a powertrain roundtable discussion at Infineon Technologies' (www.infineon.com) annual media day, panelists John Pinson, group manager-diesel engine research at General Motors, and David Hermance, executive engineer-advanced technology vehicles at Toyota, became entangled in a heated discussion over the future viability of diesel...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diesel is a fuel and an engine but was first a man--Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel--whose birth 150 years ago on March 18 we remember. His legacy is the world's most efficient internal combustion engine which, a century after its debut,...