Rudolf Diesel, A Diesel Engine

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Have you ever wondered how you would get around without your car? Rudolf Diesel created the perfect thing, a Diesel engine. Now with the invention of an engine, we can get wherever we need to go. Rudolf diesel’s life and invention has impacted the world greatly. Rudolf’s Life Rudolf Diesel came into the world in Paris, France, on March 18, 1858, and lived between there and in Germany throughout his life. Rudolf grew up with an older sister Louis, that was born in 1856, as well as a younger sister, Emma, born in 1859. Diesel was not allowed to have friends over as a kid and was faced with a depression disorder. In 1870 Rudolf and his family we’re forced to move to England because of the war. After spending a while in England with While in Germany he learned to speak full German and was very observant. After the war was over Rudolf moved back to Paris, when suddenly his sister died with a heart failure. Rudolf’s family decided it would be best if he stayed with his aunt and uncle longer, so rudolf moved back. Rudolf said his father was a whole different person and wasn 't he wasn 't a pleasure to be around. While in Germany, Rudolf found he really enjoyed arts and spent a lot of time in art museums, but it was only shortly after that when he found out he was interested in engineering. He was only 14 years old when he declared he wanted to be an engineer, and wrote his parents a letter to tell them the news. Rudolf then went on studying in the magnetic field, to follow his dreams. It started in 1880, when Rudolf went for the ferm of his professor named Karl Linde. It was then later in 1885 when he finished the design for his engine, an internal fire engine in which heat produced by the tightness of air in the cylinder is used to light the fuel. Diesel had read Sadie Carnot’s writings and it inspired Diesel so he published his own book called, “Theory and Design of a Rational Thermal Engine and the Combustion Engines Today,” (“Diesel Biography.) Diesel worked from 1893 to 1897 at Augsburg Machine-Works creating his engine, and his own company was founded in 1898. It was in the 1900’s when Diesel was trying to figure a steam engine using ammonia vapor and had to go to the hospital with an illness, but he ended up to be okay. Once Rudolf was out of the hospital he went right back to improving on his

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