Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the War of 1870 broke, all Germans were ordered out of Paris. The elder Diesel sought refuge in England, and sent the boy to an uncle in Augsburg. In trade school there, Rudolf set out grimly to be an engineer. When he was 20, studying at the Technische Hochschule of Munich, one of the lecturers, famed Professor Carl von Linde, mechanical-refrigeration pioneer, singled out young Diesel, sent him, after graduation, to work at the Linde factory in Paris. In a few months Diesel was acting as engineer, manager, inventor, patent expert, purchasing agent. He began to take...
...refrigeration work impressed Diesel with the amount of heat generated when gases are compressed. This is the basic principle of the Diesel engine, which has no electric ignition. In a Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises to around 1,000° F. Atomized fuel is then shot into the cylinder where it is ignited by the heat. The high temperature enables the Diesel to burn cheap fuel. Powdered coal and cheap oil were the first fuels that Rudolf Diesel puttered with...
...inventor patented his engine blueprint in 1892 but the first experimental model was not completed until the next year. It was started by outside power, then fuel was injected. The engine blew up. Diesel was pleased. It had shown him that the heat of compression really was enough to ignite the fuel. Four more years of hard, steady work produced an engine with the highest thermal efficiency of any then in existence...
...Diesel bee was buzzing in Germany, France, Belgium, England. Patent deals in Germany and Great Britain netted Rudolf Diesel royalties of 70,000 marks a year. In addition, a German company paid him a lump sum of 1,250,000 marks plus a block of stock. Diesel moved his family into a lavish apartment, then into a lavish house in Munich, began pouring his money into oil and real-estate speculations. Most of these turned out badly. Lawsuits popped. The inventor's health began to crack, but he labored on, propping his strength with bromides and antipyrin...
...Diesel was plagued by business troubles almost all his life, but in 1913 things were going fairly well. The Selandia, first big ocean-going ship powered by Diesels, had voyaged from Copenhagen to Bangkok and back. Herr & Frau Diesel still had their big house in Munich, entertained many U. S. engineers there. They took a vacation in Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel...