Diesel Engine
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
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Introduction
Rudolph deasel, inventor of the steam engine that bears his name jumped off a ship in 1872. Theorists have speculated he was assisted overboard by someone who had an interest in him. For context, this is 20 years before Re wind and industrial economies where steam supplied the power for trains and factories but urban transport depended on horses. Inventors were desperate to replace horse flue with more reliable engines so they could move people around their cities better.
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