Essay Archive - Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel
Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel
Rudolph Diesel was born on March 18, 1858 in Paris. On September 4, 1870
Rudolph's family moved to England. In late November they decided it would be
better for Rudolph to continue his schooling in Germany so he moved there on his
own and stayed with a young professor. The problems Rudolph was trying to solve
were the noise, size and unreliability of the steam engine. he wanted to
create something that superheated ammonia gas could take the place of steam in a
steam engine. He wanted to enable much higher compression pressures to be used
than was able with conventiona....
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