Diesel - The Modern Power
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The present dramatic performances of the Diesel engine, which is playing such an important part in railroad, marine, bus, truck, and power plant development, makes the story back of the early work on this engine again of interest.…
… Diesel engines played a large and important part in World War II. Landing boats and submarines, tanks, tractors and generator sets in these and hundreds of other applications the Diesel made its mark and demonstrated its untold possibilities for the future …
… But the real contribution that Diesel will make to our way of living is only on the threshold. The progress that is being made today outstrips by far the past history of Diesel accomplishments.
A new industry is just beginning to come of age Diesel, the Modern Power .”
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Diesel - The Modern Power - Ralph A. Richardson
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THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF RUDOLPH DIESEL
The police, the newspapers and the public have long ago ceased to be interested in the fate of Dr. Diesel, who mysteriously disappeared in the fall of 1913. The present dramatic performances of the Diesel engine, which is playing such an important part in railroad, marine, bus, truck, and power plant development, makes the story back of the early work on this engine again of interest.
Rudolph Diesel was born in 1858 of German parents living in Paris. He went to school in Paris until the war of 1870 between Germany and France forced his family to move to England. Later, he went to the Munich Technical College, where he graduated as an engineer when he was twenty-one.
While attending college, his professor in thermodynamics was the famous Von Linde, the first man to liquefy air. Listening to Von Linde's description of the low efficiency of the steam engine, he determined to develop a better engine. After proving mathematically that such an engine was practical, he built the first engine in 1892. When he tried to start it, the first explosion wrecked the engine. The experiment did prove that the compression-ignition engine would work. But by 1897 he had constructed the first successful Diesel engine which immediately attracted world-wide attention.
Unlike many inventors, Dr. Diesel gained a fortune from his engine. Everywhere he went, he was honored and acclaimed. In the spring of 1912 he visited the United States and gave a paper on the Diesel engine before the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Among other things, he said, The Diesel engine has doubled the resources of mankind as regards power production, and has made new and hitherto unutilized products of nature available for motor power.
He finished by saying, And I must call to your mind the fact that nowhere in the world are the possibilities for this prime mover as great as in this country.
This prophecy is now coming true, over a quarter of a century after it was made.
When Dr. Diesel returned to Europe, he was again busy consulting with the English and German Diesel engine manufacturers. In the fall of 1913, only a few months before the beginning of the Great War, he was called to England to attend an important meeting of English manufacturers.
On September 29, 1913, Dr. Diesel boarded the cross-channel steamer, Dresden,
at Antwerp, bound for London. It was a clear evening and the water was calm. He had many important papers with him. Dr. Diesel himself was in good health and at the height of his fame. Diesel engines were being used more and more. They had made the submarine possible. As far as is known, he strolled around the deck in the early evening and then retired to his cabin.
When the