Rudolf Diesel is the inventor of an internal combustion engine

More than one generation of scientists struggled to increase the efficiency of engine engines. But to submit an idea and justify it theoretically does not mean inventing something new. It's those people who managed to practically confirm what the hundreds were fighting over, and they can proudly wear the title of "inventor". It was such a practice and was Rudolf Diesel, who brought into the world of an internal combustion engine, igniting the compression of air.

Biography of the great inventor

Born Rudolf Diesel 1858 in Paris. My father worked as a bookbinder, the family had enough money to live. Nevertheless, the move to England was inevitable, since the Franco-Prussian war introduced its own corrections. And the Diesel family, as is known, belonged to the Germans by nationality, and in order to avoid chauvinistic reaction, had to decide to move.

Soon, 12-year-old Rudolph was sent to his native Germany to study with his mother's brother, Professor Barnikel. The family took him very warmly, and many books, training in a real school, and then at the Augsburg Polytechnic School, conversations with a clever uncle benefited the future inventor of world renown. Since 1875, an outstanding student Rudolf Diesel continues his studies at the Munich Higher Technical School, where he ignited the idea of inventing an internal combustion engine. In a conversation with Professor Bauerfeind, he told the student about the greatest interest of the modern world to such a technical field as engineering. Only then did he learn that the boy has long dreamed and is working on replacing the steam engine - the internal combustion engine. After studying, the professor of the Munich School Karl Linde called Diesel to work at a refrigeration plant, where the young man held the post of director for 12 years. Despite the main employment, Rudolf Diesel did not leave work on the main purpose of life - an invention that will later be called his name. Only here we, modern people, knowing about the diesel engine, have already forgotten the name of its inventor.

First diesel internal combustion engine

For many years of hard work put Rudolf Diesel to fulfill his dream. With the help of Karl Linde, the theoretical calculations were seen by the Society of Augsburg Machine Building Plants, which was interested in his work and provided a room for experiments. For many two years Rudolf perfected his invention, and during one of the experiments there was an explosion, the scientist himself was nearly injured.

Soon justice triumphed and hard work was rewarded - the first diesel engine of internal combustion turned the world of machine building. Diesel decided to try to make an ignition with compressed air, and then inject fuel there, as a result of which a flame broke out. Despite the recognition of the work of the scientist throughout the world, the invitation to Russia and America, native Germany remained adamant before his invention, saying that such an engine has long existed. Perhaps other German inventions existed in development, but the world does not stand still, develops, and the winner is the one who came to the finish line first. With such a reaction of Germany Rudolf Diesel could not reconcile, and on September 29, 1913, he, having gone on a steamer to London, did not arrive at his destination. At night, only the scientist remained in the wardroom, and in the morning it was empty, and the night suit was not touched. Whether it was a suicide because of non-recognition by Germany or a tragic accident is unknown. After some time, the fishermen caught the corpse of a properly dressed man, but the storm that was raging caused them to throw the body back into the sea. Superstitious fishermen have found that the soul of man asks to remain in the water element. Cold water and sandy bottom became the last house of a genius inventor, whose memory still lives in his diesel engine.