Today, diesel engines power everything from long-haul trucks and construction equipment to locomotives, generators, agricultural machinery, and ocean-going ships.
But when German engineer Rudolf Diesel began working on his revolutionary engine in the 1890s, none of that existed.
In fact, Diesel wasn’t trying to build a better truck engine.
He was trying to solve a much larger problem: How do you create an engine that wastes less energy?
The answer would eventually become one of the most important mechanical inventions in modern history.
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