Rudolph Diesel Inventor of Diesel Engine
Rudolph Diesel Inventor of Diesel Engine

Biography of Rudolph Diesel

Early Life

Rudolph Diesel inventor of diesel engine was a very famous inventor and mechanical engineer who belonged to the German descent. He invented many things but he is known best for his invention of diesel engine. He was born in the year of 1858 on March 18th and his place of birth was as Paris which is located in France. His parent’s names were as Theodor Diesel and Elise and they had three children. Rudolph was their second child and they had migrated to France from Germany sometime ago. His father was a binder of books by the profession and after migration, had started the business of leather goods after migration to France.

Education

Due to war in France those days, his parents moved to United Kingdom but he was sent to the Augsburg which is a part of Germany. He started his formal education over there Royal Country Trade School where his uncle was also a teacher of the mathematics. After completion of his education, he got admission in the Industrial School of Augsburg which was recently developed in those days. In the year of 1875, he was just 17 years old when he was awarded a scholarship and as a result he move to Munich to study in Royal Bavarian Polytechnic institute which was located over there.

Career

After completion of his education in the field of mechanical engineer, he started his formal career over there in Munich. Despite of his wishes, his parents wanted him to come back and to run the well settled family business but he was not interested in that. He joined a company named as Sulzer Brother Engineering Works in Winterthur and started practicing as a professional engineer in the field. He worked in many other companies as an engineer too but with that he had started working on inventions.

Inventor of Diesel Engine

This work made him successful and as a result he invented the very famous diesel engine for the first time. Rudolph Diesel is widely credited as the invention of this type of engine which changed the dimensions and laid the foundation of a new history in the field.

Diesel Engine

Diesel engine is a specific form of engine which is also named as compression and ignition engine. It is a specific form of engine which is designed internally to be an internal combustion engine. It works in the form that ignition is started by using the compression heat and as a result the fuel which is present in the combustion chamber is used for this process. The diesel is used as a fuel in this form of engine and that is the only reason of naming it like this.

Death

He died in the year of 1913 on September 29th. He was almost 55 years of age at the time of his death.