Rudolf Diesel was the second of three children born to Theodor and Elise Diesel on March 18, 1858 in the city of Paris, France. The son of German-born immigrants, Theodor Diesel had migrated from his ...

If America were a saner place, Washington would have more than two political parties, Major League Baseball would never have created the designated hitter, and we’d all be driving cars with clean, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Douglas Brunt discusses what diesel engines are. Corner Bookstore in New York City hosted this event and author Joseph Kanon served as the ...

Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere—on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; ...

“No inventor was more disruptive to the established order than Rudolf Diesel,” writes historian and novelist Brunt (Trophy Son) in this thrilling investigation. The French-German inventor of the ...

Commonly used in trucks and heavy machinery, the diesel engine is one of the most important engines created. Developed in the late 1890s by German engineer Rudolf Diesel, the diesel engine came from ...

Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine, circa 1883 (Public domain/via Wikimedia) On episode 42, Charles answers a question about the game of Rugby, and then talks to Douglas Brunt about his ...

Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel engine, was highly sought after by global industries and ...

New biographies by Scott Shane, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Douglas Brunt and Sung-Yoon Lee tell the stories of people working through, under or above different kinds of power. Credit...John Gall Supported ...

Major drawback of Diesel engines ever since Rudolf Diesel built the first in Germany 42 years ago has been their heftiness. Although the oil a Diesel burns is cheaper than gasoline and its principle ...