Rudolf Diesel

Background

A German engineer educated in Munich.

Contribution

Invented the compression-ignition (diesel) engine in the 1890s, a more efficient engine that transformed shipping, rail, and heavy transport.

Associated inventions

• Four-Stroke Internal-Combustion Engine

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Nikolaus Otto

Sources & further reading

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• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia
• Deutsches Museum — collections & researchDeutsches Museum · Museum

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