Today (March 18, 1838) is the birthday of Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, the German inventor of diesel engines.
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was
born on March 18, 1858, in Paris, France. His parents were Theodore Diesel, a
Bavarian immigrant living in Paris. A bookseller on a commercial basis. In 1848
he left his hometown of Augsburg, Bavaria. Within weeks of Diesel's birth, a
Vincent was donated to a farming family. There he spent his first nine months.
When he returned to his family, the Diesel family was plagued by financial
problems. Thus the young Rudolph Diesel had to work in his father’s workshop.
Had to deliver leather goods to customers using a borough. He attended a
Protestant-French school. Soon became interested in social questions and
technology. Being a good student, the 12-year-old Diesel Society won the BRL
Instruction Elementar Bronze Medal.
When the Franco-Prussian War
broke out the same year, his family was forced to leave. They settled in
London, England. There Diesel attended an English school. However, before the
war ended, Diesel's mother, 12 - year - old Rudolph, was fluent in German with
her aunts and uncles Barbara and Christoph Bornigel, and her uncle taught her
math there. At the age of 14, Diesel wrote a letter to his parents saying he
wanted to become an engineer. After completing his basic education in 1873, he
joined the newly established Oxburg Industrial School. Two years later, he
received a qualifying scholarship from the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic in
Munich.
After graduating from university
he worked in a research factory on the manufacture of refrigerators, high-pressure machines and heating machines. In 1885 he published a dissertation on
the invention of the Rudolph diesel engine, a window jus engine in a bar. He
moved to Berlin in 1890 and engaged himself in research on internal combustion
engines. Diesel engines were finally invented in 1897. Since then diesel
engines have been widely used as ship engines. The weight of the engines has
been reduced by researchers. They are also used for vehicles and more. The
diesel engine was successfully operated using peanut oil in the engine.
At the height of its success in
1913, Durston Deck suddenly disappeared on its way to England. In 1901 he was
awarded the Elliott Crozan Medal. Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, the German
inventor of the famous diesel propulsion engine, passed away on September 29,
1913, at the age of 55.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant
Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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