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Diesel engine

Dr. Rudolf Diesel

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

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