Rudolf Diesel

Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913), German inventor of the Diesel engine.

Rudolf Diesel developed the idea of the Compression ignition engine during the last two decades of the 19th Century. Working at the MAN plant at Augsburg (??) This 'Diesel engine' was named after him. Originally it was known as the oil engine.

He died in 1913 in mysterious circumstances. He disappeared on a cross-channel ferry in 1913, just prior to the outbreak of WW1, which is highly suspicious.