Rudolf Diesel Vanishes: Inventor Found Dead at Sea
Rudolf Diesel vanished from a steamship crossing the English Channel, his body recovered from the North Sea ten days later under circumstances that remain disputed between suicide and murder. He left behind the compression-ignition engine that bears his name, a invention originally designed to run on peanut oil that now powers the majority of the world's heavy transport, shipping, and industrial machinery.
September 29, 1913
113 years ago
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