Rudolf Diesel

(March 18, 1858 - September 29, 1913)

(Diesel Engine)

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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was the engine of the German scholar and is the inventor of the Diesel Engine.

Diesel was born in Paris, France in 1858 of German parents and immigrated to France. Diesel childhood spent partly in France until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. His family was forced to evacuate to move to London, England.And before the war ended, his mother sent Rudolf Diesel, who were aged 12 years to stay in Augsburg with his uncle and aunt to be able to speak in German and educated at Royal County Trade School, where his uncle to teach math there.

At the age of 14, Rudolf Diesel, sent a letter to parents that contains his goal to become an engineer, and after completing basic education and become the best student in his class in 1873, he continued his schooling at the School of Augsburg.Subsequently in 1875, he received a scholarship from the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic in Munich, where Rudolf Diesel was forced against her parents' wishes and hopes for financial difficulties Rudolf began working to earn money.

While in college, Rudolf Diesel worked in a factory and get a lot of experience from work. In 1880, Diesel graduated from university and get the honor as a student with best academic value.

Rudolf Diesel conduct research, how to use the fuel in an engine becomes more efficient. He knew that the steam engines that exist in his time, only have an efficiency of 10-15%. He then designed an engine with fuel that is sprayed into the compression chamber where the fuel will be burned due to heat caused by compression. Machine is what we know today with Diesel Engine. Diesel's dream to create machines with high efficiency to be achieved, because the source of fuel for diesel engines that are used now and we are familiar with the name 'diesel' is the residual oil from the screening station.

After the death of Rudolf Diesel, diesel engines become a substitute for steam engines. Diesel engines are heavy machinery and have a more rigid and stronger than gasoline engines so that diesel engines are not used for aircraft engines, but diesel engines developed so widely used by many factories, ships, submarines, locomotives and modern cars. Diesel engines have the advantage of being more fuel efficient than gasoline engines. Rudolf Diesel particularly interested in using coal dust or vegetable oil as fuel, and in fact, a machine he designed it to run using vegetable oil.