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  1. Rudolf Diesel (born March 18, 1858, Paris, France—died September 29, 1913, at sea in the English Channel) was a German thermal engineer who invented the internal-combustion engine that bears his name. He was also a distinguished connoisseur of the arts, a linguist, and a social theorist.

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  2. Diesel was born at 38 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth in Paris, France, in 1858 [2] the second of three children of Elise (née Strobel) and Theodor Diesel. His parents were Bavarian immigrants living in Paris.

  3. Dec 6, 2023 · Rudolf Diesel, the man behind the invention of the engine that bears his name, was born in Paris, France, in 1858. From a young age, he had an inquisitive mind and wrote a letter to his parents at the age of 14 to let them know that he wanted to be an engineer.

  4. 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 struggles to translate theory into practice, to his chronic physical and mental ailments.

  5. 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.

  6. Mar 29, 2022 · Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was born in Paris to Bavarian parents in 1858, at the height of what’s now called the First Industrial Revolution. It was the age of steam and iron production, and Europe’s economies were driven by them.

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  8. Nov 13, 2009 · On September 29, 1913, Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the engine that bears his name, disappears from the steamship Dresden while traveling from Antwerp, Belgium to Harwich, England.

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