Named after Rudolf Diesel, who patented his compression-ignition engine in 1893, envisioning it running on vegetable oils.
A type of internal combustion engine that ignites fuel by compression rather than spark; also the heavy petroleum fuel used in such engines.
Named after Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858–1913), the German mechanical engineer who invented the compression-ignition internal combustion engine and patented it in 1893 (German patent DRP 67207). Diesel designed the engine to achieve maximum thermodynamic efficiency by using high compression rather than a spark to ignite fuel, demonstrated at the MAN factory in Augsburg in 1897. He designed it to run on vegetable oil and