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Rudolf Diesel

1858 - 1913

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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: , German: [ˈdiːzl̩] ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Diesel is the 17th most popular inventor (up from 18th in 2019), the 188th most popular biography from France (up from 258th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Inventor.

Rudolf Diesel was a German engineer and inventor who is most famous for inventing the diesel engine.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Rudolf Diesel ranks 17 out of 426. Before him are Louis Braille, Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, and Nicolas Appert. After him are Cai Lun, Nicéphore Niépce, Karl Ferdinand Braun, George Stephenson, Hans Lippershey, and Eli Whitney.

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Among people born in 1858, Rudolf Diesel ranks 7. Before him are Giacomo Puccini, Max Planck, Émile Durkheim, Selma Lagerlöf, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and Theodore Roosevelt. After him are Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Omar Mukhtar, and Giuseppe Peano. Among people deceased in 1913, Rudolf Diesel ranks 2. Before him is Ferdinand de Saussure. After him are Menelik II, Alfred Russel Wallace, George I of Greece, J. P. Morgan, Harriet Tubman, Tobias Asser, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Lesya Ukrainka, Blanche Monnier, and Alfred von Schlieffen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Rudolf Diesel ranks 188 out of 6,770. Before him are Joachim Murat (1767), Nicolas Appert (1749), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), Guy of Lusignan (1150), Jean-François Millet (1814), and Louis VIII of France (1187). After him are Georges Danton (1759), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Louis VII of France (1120), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Nicolas Flamel (1330), and André Breton (1896).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Rudolf Diesel ranks 4. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Louis Daguerre (1787), and Nicolas Appert (1749). After him are Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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