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Diesel

Working at the Krupp factory in Essen (where the biggest guns used in World War I were made), German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel concentrated on heavy-duty internal-combustion engines. During a period of six years, beginning in 1892, he perfected the revolutionary new engine that took his name.