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Rudolf Diesel collection
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1895-1958 (Creation)
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- Diesel, Rudolf
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0.01 m of textual records
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Name of creator
(1858-1913)
Biographical history
German engineer, born in Paris, studied at the Munich Polytechnic. Set about constructing a "rational heat motor," demonstrating the first compression engine in 1897, after solving the problem of feul injection into the cylinder head against enormous pressures by devising a special pump. He spent most of his life at his factory at Augsburg until he vanished from an English channel steamer in September 1913.
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Copies of letters and translations of Diesel's letters in German, regarding the importation of the new engine to Calvin Co. Limited, Garden Island, Ontario. Also contains material relating to Diesel's life and mysterious disappearance.
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- English
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2999 (Diesel)
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Open
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Public domain