History and Fundamental Principles of the Diesel Engine

Abstract

On February 27, 1892, the engineer Rudolf DieselRudolf Diesel filed a patent with the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin for a ``new rational heat engine''. On February 23, 1893, he was granted the patent Rudolf Diesel Patent DRP 67207 DRP 67207 for the ``Working Method and Design for Combustion Engines'' dated February 28, 1892. This was an important first step toward the goal Diesel had set himself, which, as can be gathered from his biography, had preoccupied him since his days as a university student.