Rudolf Diesel: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
Born March 18, 1858 • Paris • France
Died September 29, 1913 (aged 55) • Atlantic Ocean
Inventions diesel engine

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Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
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Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
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Max Eyth
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Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
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Sir Christopher Cockerell
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Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
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Frederick W. Taylor
American inventor and engineer
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Dean Kamen
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Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
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Georges Claude
French engineer
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Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Freiherr von
Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach
Austrian chemist and engineer
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ctesibius Of Alexandria
Greek physicist and inventor
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Philippe Lebon
French scientist
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Sir Henry Christopher Mance
British scientist