Important Events of March – 18

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Important Events of March – 18

Birth Anniversary of Rudolf Diesel

  • Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was born on 18 March, 1858.
  • He was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine, and for his mysterious death.
  • In the 1892, Rudolf Diesel invented an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine that bears his name.
  • Awards‎: ‎Elliott Cresson Medal‎ (1901).

diesel engine 

  • The diesel internal combustion engine differs from the gasoline powered Otto cycle by using highly compressed hot air to ignite the fuel rather than using a spark plug (compression ignition rather than spark ignition).
  • In the true diesel engine, only air is initially introduced into the combustion chamber.

 Death : He died on September 29, 1913.

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