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Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer. He is best known for inventing the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel. Both are named for him.
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business · German inventor and engineer (1858–1913) · inventor · entrepreneur · engineer · Esperantist · also Rudolf Diesel, Diesel
Born 18 March 1858 · Died 30 September 1913 · Q12674
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1976).
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And into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1978
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1957· 1 entry
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Diesel's birth and the 60th anniversary of the diesel engine development, Yamaoka dedicated the Rudolf Diesel Memorial Garden (Rudolf-Diesel-Gedächtnishain) in Wittelsbacher Pa
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1953· 1 entry
The German Institute for Inventions (Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen) created the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille to recognize inventions and the entrepreneurship
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1950· 1 entry
Magokichi Yamaoka, the founder of Yanmar, the diesel engine manufacturer in Japan, visited West Germany and learned that there was no tomb or monument for Diesel
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1913· 1 entry
Died 1913-09-30.
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1901· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1901).
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1900· 1 entry
A small Diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto company which, on the suggestion of the French Government, was run on arachide [peanut] oil, and operated so well that very few people were aware of the fact
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1897· 1 entry
Featuring a 25 horsepower four-stroke, single vertical cylinder compression
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1893· 1 entry
Published a treatise entitled Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat-engine to Replace the Steam Engine and The Combustion Engines Known Today, which he had been working on since early 1892
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1892· 1 entry
After working on this idea for several years, he considered his theory to be completed
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1883· 1 entry
Diesel married Martha Flasche, and continued to work for Linde, gaining numerous patents in both Germany and France
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1873· 1 entry
Enrolled at the newly founded Industrial School of Augsburg
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-03-18.
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1855· 1 entry
And became a leather goods manufacturer there
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