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2. Diesel engine - Wikipedia

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   1952 Shell Oil film showing the development of the diesel engine from 1877. The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

3. Category:Diesel engines - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Diesel engines" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

4. Rudolf Diesel - Wikipedia

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   Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: / ˈ d iː z əl ˌ-s əl /, [1] German: ⓘ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German [note 1] inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.

5. History of the diesel car - Wikipedia

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   Napier Deltic—a high-speed, lightweight diesel engine used in fast naval craft and some railway locomotives. SVO—Straight Vegetable Oil—alternative fuel for diesel engines. Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C—world's most powerful, most efficient and largest diesel engine. WVO—Waste Vegetable Oil—filtered, alternative fuel for diesel engines.

6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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   Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), Russia/France – early colour photography method based on three colour channels, also colour film slides and colour motion pictures; Mark Publicover (born 1958), U.S. – first affordable trampoline safety net enclosure; George Pullman (1831–1897), U.S. – Pullman sleep wagon

7. Hercules Engine Company - Wikipedia

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   Hercules became known as White Engine at this point. This new trajectory for Hercules was short lived, however, with a rapid decline in White's fortunes, leaving Hercules little changed. White sold Hercules to Wedtech in 1986, which held the engine maker only briefly, before selling to a group of investors the next year. Significant here with ...

8. Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - Wikipedia

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   Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections is a British documentary series originally broadcast on the National Geographic Channel, and later on BBC2.It is presented by Richard Hammond, and looks at how engineers and designers use historic inventions and clues from the natural world in ingenious ways to develop new buildings and machines.

9. Charles F. Kettering - Wikipedia

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   He became a central figure in the development of the EMD 567 locomotive engine and the Detroit Diesel 6-71 engine, serving at EMD until his retirement in 1960. [23] Charles Kettering built a house, "Ridgeleigh Terrace", in 1914. According to local sources, it was the first in the United States to have electric air conditioning using freon. [24]