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Diesel engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.
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Rudolf Diesel was the inventor of the diesel fueled engine. ... In 1898, Rudolf Diesel was granted patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
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diesel engine, type of internal-combustion engine invented by the German engineer Rudolf Diesel and patented by him in 1892. Although his engine was designed to use coal dust as fuel, the diesel engine now burns low-cost fuel oil.
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What you need to know about the diesel engine. ... In 1892 Rudolf Diesel developed and obtained the German patent for the diesel engine. His goal was to create an engine that was highly efficient. Much more efficient than the gasoline engine that was invented in 1876 and was not very efficient at all.
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Diesel thought the United States was the greatest potential market for his engine and he was almost right. The first diesel built in the United States was made in 1898 by Busch-Zulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co.
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