Who invented the diesel engine?
Rudolph Von Diesel invented the Diesel engine in the late 1890s. He first showed it to the public at the World’s Fair in the year 1900. Everybody was impressed, because the diesel engine was more powerful, more reliable, and more efficient than the gasoline engines of the time. The powerful oil barons knew that people wouldn’t have to buy their petroleum oil if they could power this engine by vegetable oil they could grow themselves, so they bought the engine, and didn’t release it to the market until they’d found a way to process petroleum into a fuel that would run a diesel engine: diesel fuel.
