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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Diesel has received more than 1,915,979 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2019). Rudolf Diesel is the 18th most popular inventor (down from 14th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from France (down from 116th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 18 out of 426. Before him are Louis Braille, Samuel Morse, Cai Lun, Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, and George Stephenson. After him are Nicéphore Niépce, Abbas ibn Firnas, Werner von Siemens, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Samuel Colt, and Ernő Rubik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Rudolf Diesel ranks 8. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Giacomo Puccini, Selma Lagerlöf, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and Gustaf V of Sweden. After him are Georg Simmel, Omar Mukhtar, Emmeline Pankhurst, Giuseppe Peano, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Christiaan Eijkman. Among people deceased in 1913, Rudolf Diesel ranks 3. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, and George I of Greece. After him are Alfred Russel Wallace, J. P. Morgan, Alfred von Schlieffen, Lesya Ukrainka, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, Sophia of Nassau, Tobias Asser, and August Bebel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Rudolf Diesel ranks 258 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Foch (1851), Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Méliès (1861), Serge Gainsbourg (1928), Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810), and Michel Platini (1955). After him are Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Pope Innocent V (1225), Charles Fourier (1772), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Philip I of France (1052), and Jules Massenet (1842).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Rudolf Diesel ranks 3. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), and Louis Daguerre (1787). After him are Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas Appert (1749), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Renault (1877), Louis Blériot (1872), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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