Rudolf Diesel: Pioneer of the Age of Power
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080611164X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 348 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Unlike the Americans, however, Diesel was much more the theoretical engineer and much less the mechanic. His career provides an interesting and contrasting case study of the inventor-entrepreneur.”—Harvard Business Review. “Diesel was ten years younger than Edison and Westinghouse and five years senior to Ford, yet his technological achievements must rank with theirs in relation to the production and utilization of power
Since then it has been a prime mover for civilization, and today much of the world depends on it as a source of power. Rudolf Diesel: Pioneer of the Age of Power is the first English-language publication of Rudolph Diesel’s biography. They present Diesel as he was—a man who lived, worked, and invented so far ahead of his time that the world is only now beginning to catch up to him.. Nowhere, perhaps, is it in more widespread use than in America, where the word “diesel” is a part of our language. Robert Nitske and Charles Morrow Wilson offer a warm and moving account of Diesel from the time of his birth in Paris in 1858 to his mysterious death in 1913. On February 17, 1894, the Diesel engine was operated successfully for the first time. Authors W
A genius and a mystery Read at the New York Society Library.Rudolf Diesel was a talented inventor who designed devices from refrigerators to steam engines, and of course the diesel engine. This marvelous biography describes many of his accomplishments, including the engine.Unlike gas engines, Diesel designed his device so it could run on nearly any type of fuel. At the time, the standard petroleum-powered internal combustion engines were large, expensive and inefficient. The alternatives weren’t much better either: if a factory workshop didn’t use a gas engine, it was probably powered by a steam engine, which were even more wasteful and expensi. Golden Lion said smaller and more powerful engines. Rudolf want to create a rationale heat engine, a combustion under pressure engine. The engine would run on a variety of fuels because different countries would have different fuel resources. Diesel engines were the improvement over steam engines. Diesel engines were used to power electric in third world countries, embedded in marine boats and submarines, and pumped water. Diesel dream of creating a diesel powered locomotive but never lived to see that dream. If Diesel were alive today, he would want smaller and more powerful engines. Electricity evaded Diesel and he found himself outside that realm. However, today Diesel would have l