It is true, that Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of the
diesel engine, was born in Paris. On March the 18th 1858.
The family were Germans, living in France. The father had
a factory for leather.
In 1870, when the German-French war of 1870/71 begun, all
Germans had to leave France and so the Diesel family went
to London. Rudolf (12 years old) went to Augsburg (Germany),
where he went to school and lived in the house of a professor
as his foster-child for five years.
>From 1875 on he studied at Muenchen (Munich) mechanical
sor
engineering.
In 1881 he became director of "LINDE's ice machine factory",
the inventors of the fridge.
In 1893 be got the patent for his combustion engine and built=20
the first engines at the "Maschinenfabrik Augsburg", today home
of the MAN trucks.
In the first year there was a lot of trouble. Technical trouble=20
with the engines and jurisdictional trouble with the patents.
Rudolf Diesel died when he fall over board of a ferry crossing
the english Channel in the night from the 29th to the 30th of
September 1913. Some people say it was a suicide, because he
has had a lot of financial trouble.=20
His body was found some days later by a coast guard boat. As
it was usual at that time, the seamen only took his pasport and
other papers and threw the body back in the sea.
Hope this short biography was interesting for you and not too
much off topic.
Regards
Andreas
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