The tragic story of the man who invented diesel - and why he would turn in his grave | BBC Ideas

[@ChairinBaruah]

Sir Rudolf Diesel is a great person. He invented one of the best engine. Today the power of the diesel engine is more. And the most mileage giving engine.

[@auroestrada1817]

this engine is one of the best that the world ever had!, thanks to its inventor, Mr Rudolf Diesel; the diesel cycle in thermodynamics

[@shabadoo24]

Big oil companies had him silenced . Designed to burn peanut oil

[@danielcadnum7214]

A Diesel engine really came into its own and became a powerhouse when they figured out that when they used the exhaust gas to spin this turbine wheel and push air into its intake on its other end it can really make power. I believe the aircraft industry just before WWII had been experimenting with turbocharger’s. They became a big horsepower adders to the aircraft engines of the fighters and bombers in WWII. Once they incorporated them on the Diesel engines in the late 60’s and 70’s the Diesel truck engines really made power and moved the world. A short documentary on the diesel turbo is in order I believe. 😊

[@domsquaaa4323]

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[@joshycasuga2555]

Germans are the Masterclass of Engineering

[@mohamedmaaniu5588]

Japanese are way ahead than the whole western hemisphere as a whole

[@jonasperes7998]

If you dig about the all story, you find the real version of that motor, was a Citroen invention, and Diesel had big issues to get the patent, is all in the History, not on Ekipédia,,LOL

[@KucharczPL]

When you realize that diesel engine was found by Jan Nadrowskiego from Poland, And Rudolf diesel only patended engine.

[@StickyKeys187]

Inspired by the fire piston his buddy got in Malaysia to light a cigar lol

[@swiniak8776]

@@jonasperes7998bruh Polish guy made it and diesel stolen it from him

[@shwugyytcodm]

How he died was there actually were foreign agents on that ship trying to kill him and instead of letting then kill him. he did decide to jump off and take his own life that’s how he died

[@MrTorrence69]

in the fight for greed they killed him

[@jakepavlo91]

and that why the world is fcked! For the greed of a few men

[@arahant69]

and epstein didn't kill himself lol.

[@Mackeson3]

Well you weren't there Patrick and neither was I but the theory just might be plausible. The story goes that he was on his way to England to negotiate a deal whereby his engines would be used on British Royal Navy submarines, which of course Germany wasn't to happy about as the two navies were bitter rivals.

[@lanedexter6303]

@@arahant69 Epstein was swapped out. That body was not his.

[@magicegg9503]

Diesel was a genius .

[@ElijahDecker]

Anybody else notice that the animation of the diesel engine includes a spark plug?

[@knutz7]

Saw that but figured it was the fuel being injected in right before TDC and igniting @ TDC.

[@johntrueconservative2547]

I noticed that too

[@hotmom1494]

The whole video is bullshit

[@gethinjones8992]

my diesel van LOVED sunflower oil 🌻🌻 and it smells beter than diesel 😆 flower power 💪👍 literaly the power of flowers 😆🌻🌻🌻🔥💥💨

[@jakepavlo91]

What van? I've got a merc vito and want to try it but I don't know if an old transit would be better.

[@MsRichycon]

It will work fine if you do a 70%veg oil 30%disel mix I did it for years in a passat the old smile will run on old engine oil any oil you can get your hands on those things are tanks

[@berndp3426]

I do not understand why he should turn in his grave. The diesel engine finally has been developed to such perfection lately so it runs as silently and smooth as petrol engines. While the former simplier diesel engines still working on the classic principle of sucking and compressing, legacy fuel injection can still run on vegetable oil, equal which kind of, the large heavyduty diesels (ships, tanks e.g.) als can operate on heavy oil, old machine oil, whichever odd oils, but the modern-time highcompressed highspeed pump & commonrail circuit of injector-based engines of cars can't. They need internal lubrication by the mineral oil basis, which vegetable oil is not really and safely capable of (at least not w/o adding synthetic components to it to reproduce this feature)

[@marcopolo8584]

The modern turbodiesel needs to be in more cars, they're excellent, efficient pieces of machinery, and a single manufacturer taking cost cutting measures shouldn't destroy an entire engine type's reputation.

[@bossymodo]

@@marcopolo8584 Well said. I do believe however that it shouldn't be all that difficult to get vegetable oil to run modern diesel car engines. Even without a turbocharger diesel engines are still more efficient than gasoline.

[@shwugyytcodm]

In all reality he’s like my great great great grandpa because my grandpa right now is still alive and I think this was his grandpa maybe his dad said I would have to talk to him because I kind of forget it’s been a while since we had the conversation but yeah this is super cool for me

[@xav1uz]

nice larp bro

[@lanedexter6303]

Henry Ford had a working relationship with George Washington Carver (aka “Mr. Peanut”) and came very close to producing his Model T with Rudolf Diesel’s engine, running on peanut oil. Think how history might be different.

[@knutz7]

If only his newspapers were more widely read, what a different world it would be.

[@richtomlinson7090]

Peanuts aren't free, and we would not be in a much better position. Think of how much land it would take to grow enough Peanut 🛢 oil. I'll add that Henry Ford was forward thinking and I believe he used some plant based composite like a plastic. I forget if it was Soy based, or Peanut based. But basically there are drawbacks to everything, and we should look at efficiency overall, not elimination

[@lanedexter6303]

True. It would have changed history, but not necessarily for the better.@@richtomlinson7090

[@bobadler3097]

How would history change? They'd both have been killed instead of just R. Diesel.

[@bekluwe]

Rudolf Diesel wasn‘t French. He was just born in Paris, but his parents were both Germans and he went to Germany. He isn’t French.

[@finleypdoherty]

'Franco- German'

[@stevenmartinek815]

Your kidding, Rudolf Diesel isn't a French name?

[@hotmom1494]

He was born in Bavaria and moved to Paris, very young and then driven out of Paris and he did not die in the English channel. He went to Canada and built diesel engines for Britain to fight the German U-boats.

[@Calligraphybooster]

For more information about my great-great-gr..uncle (maybe a ‘great’ more? -my grand-grandmother was his niece) I recommend ‘Der Roman eines Motors’ by Eugen Diesel. Interessting, but his death is and remains a mystery.

[@knutz7]

Murder 100%. Same shitstain family/foundation who via the club of Rome, dreamed up the IPCC who now get to dictate the terms on the NEXT $our$e of energy and that WE are to blame for the current situation. (They also monopolised pharma. It’s petrochemical muck.)

[@lou626]

Yeah sure thing

[@SpartanJ113]

His death was no mystery. His innovations threatened the status-quo, and thus he needed to be removed

[@Calligraphybooster]

@@SpartanJ113 every invention by definition does imo

[@663rainmaker]

Hydrogen fuel conversion on the Mercedes Benz Diesel engines on the Hindenburg was developed and able for easy use multi fuel power... ! Yes indeed it is truly incredible! Stanley Meyers invented a high mileage vehicle that ran on water... and a simple onboard converter... for Stanley it was Simply simple! HHO conversions have been no new thing!

[@jolotschka]

Lots of details and facts omitted that's not real journalism. First he studied under Linde who developed modern cooling machines bases on compressing a gas to liquify. Second was born in France but the family was German and so went to Bavaria in the Prussian French war. Third refused to give German military exclusive access to his parents and went missing on a journey where he wanted his parents to the British navy to build submarines.

[@peetsnort]

Patents or parents

[@knutz7]

If that’s the case, he backed the wrong horse. JD Rockefeller’s oil monopoly was the reason he invented it.

[@robertmitton3584]

@@knutz7 110% INCORRECT!!! Mr. Diesel was very adamant that his engines were to NEVER run on petroleum! There was no reason to use petroleum then or now. All fuels can be made from plant materials. The Diesel engine ran primarily on peanut oil! Learn a little history before posting nonsense! It is scumbags like JD Rockefeller and the other oil barons that killed Planet Earth.

[@knutz7]

@@robertmitton3584 learn history.? rockefeller had a monopoly on oil so diesel perfected the engine to run on biofuel, he "fell" over the side of a ferry and Rockefeller magically discovered distillate and called it dieseline in order to get on top of that monopoly as well. when he was fined for the oil monoploly amongst others, he was ordered to break them up, as a measure of "philanthropy" and as a way to get his reputation back plus sell his petrochemical pharma drugs, he hijacked the medical laboratories in universities at the expense of thousands of years of combined natural cures. he also created the american cancer society so as to control that narrative as well, now i read all about that topic over three decades ago. he was also a founding member of the club or rome, who's brainchild is the IPCC and "global warming/climate change". rockefeller foundation also wrote the script for sarscov2/pandemic scenario, titled "lockstep" back ijn 2012. anything else you feel that i need to "educate" myself on Sir.?

[@richtomlinson7090]

@@knutz7 there isn't anything stopping you from running a diesel on bio fuel, except for the land needed to grow enough plant based oils. Deforestation would skyrocket, and people would complain about Big Peanut.

[@dennisstorie4604]

Oil companies took him out

[@imjuzsayin..5017]

He got the idea from gobek api

[@billybabu]

Oh what a surprise 😮

[@HardWhereHero]

get it right. HE WAS MURDERED. You can't make a fuel that the oil and gas companies can't tax. it's just a rule.

[@richtomlinson7090]

The Truth is that we would be complaining about BIG PEANUT, and the control they have.

[@shwugyytcodm]

I just randomly looked up his name I’m happy that people are researching them and putting out what he did I know exactly what happened to him I know exactly how he died I’m curious on if you know exactly how he died

[@ethankubic3140]

How do you "exactly" how he died? Are you an eyewitness? What's your source?

[@watchdothink6657]

He drowned cause he thought jump out of the ship wouldn't kill him and he can't know how to swim.

[@LazarOrthodox04]

@@watchdothink6657 least obvious Fed

[@LazarOrthodox04]

@@watchdothink6657 he was killed by banking mafias

[@tazkrebbeks3391]

Tell me, Tell me. Inquiring minds want to know.

[@robmobster911]

The Chrysler turbine was a turbine engine car that can run of anything that’s combustible from rubbing alcohol to perfume and liquor not to mention kerosene and other they ran it on peanut oil and it worked

[@Anti-CornLawLeague]

Daryl Hannah’s appearance on Ellen sent me here.

[@philbert85]

Honest BBC... Different from the one I know

[@kevinstewart870]

Rudolph Diesel did "NOT" invented the diesel engine. Herbert Akroyd Stuart invented the first heavy oil petroleum injection engine in 1890 before Rudolph Diesels concept. History is wrong and I will always call it a Stuart petroleum injection engine. Rudolph just made the design more efficient like today's engines. Stuart is the rightfully inventor of this type on engine. Look up Herbert Akroyd Stuart if you want the history on his invention .

[@НиколайАлексеевич-в6к]

Более того на угольной пыли Дизель потерпел фиаско, это были основные надежды Ефрейтора Художника который перекрашивал карту ...

[@ajscm6748]

Maybe you should take your own advice and research the topic. First, he wanted it called the Akroyd engine. Second, the principles on which engines operate are different. Stuarts engine used a secondary chamber to combust the vaporized mixture of oil and air. Diesels engine operates purely by compression.

[@hurtstopee1895]

we literally could have got a car that ran on a potato. screw the petroliarcs!

[@knutz7]

Still can, buy an older Perkins.

[@richtomlinson7090]

Everyone would be complaining about Big Potatoe.

[@daryldixon5280]

wow I thought this was a legitimate video until the end.. how much money has the wef given to this channel?

[@destinytroll1374]

Me: Rolling coal with my Duramax Interesting 🤔

[@daryldixon5280]

yes... suddenly these engines that could take anything you put in them.. now you should look up fossil fuel origin

[@aarondavelozarita4077]

The fire piston of eastasia her inspiration

[@saeedhossain6099]

well peanut oil, but yeah.....

[@POBulkhead]

I alway thought he killed himself

[@salimkacel7153]

Rudolf isn't a french name , he is German from his parents just born in Paris 😏

[@DainosuDeadChannelLmao]

This explains why german is a motorhead

[@stevetreadway9020]

Clearly murdered. When the oil companies found out a diesel peanut oil engine could burn gas oil, dead

[@richtomlinson7090]

It still isn't free, and never would be. We would simply be complaining about BIG PEANUT!!!!

[@ericpayne9237]

We got real diesel today n love it

[@franz.isler799]

"...AND WHY HE WOULD TURN IN HIS GRAVE." --"BBC Ideas," your headline banner suck even for a clickbait. Rudolf Diesel never had a grave, an important distinction since his death remains a mystery to this day. Ten days after he was last seen aboard the SS Dresden, the crew of the Dutch pilot ship ("Coertsen") saw a corpse floating on the Oosterschelde (a former estuary in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands) and they (reputedly) took some items that identified the corpse. Since the body was badly "decomposed", they did not retain it aboard because of heavy weather. Diesel's disappearance remains a mystery and fuel for many theories and conjectures...to this day, and your "grave" misnomer will go as one of the innacuracies the BBC (Born Before Computers--Broken Biscuit Corporation) seems now has a penchant for...

[@marcopolo8584]

Transitioning from a brilliant man's history and legacy, to wagging fingers at automakers. Really feels like there's an agenda at play here.

[@frenkenberg]

HOW CAN VEGETABLE OIL PRODUCE "EMISSIONS"? duh

[@Mackeson3]

by burning it duh

[@kevinstewart870]

Even modern diesel use a" pre combustion chamber "( either in the cylinder head or in the top of the piston to pre ignite the gases. ) so do your research before making a comment.

[@shwugyytcodm]

This is my great great great great great great great great grandpa if you don’t believe me you can contact me and I can show you the family tree

[@richtomlinson7090]

That many generations would've gone back to the 1700s, and not the late 1800s

[@shwugyytcodm]

@@richtomlinson7090 lmao idk how many greats exactly idc what anyone thinks iv seen it with my eyes my grandpa showed me.

[@mehdi-9999]

Heh, diesel is now more expensive then petrol😂

[@tazkrebbeks3391]

And jet engines run on kerosene.

[@ruffleswinner2212]

I heard that he was Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer's brother

[@shashang.s4205]

❣️

[@boeingpameesha9550]

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Jesus; Matthew 11:28.

[@isnarahayu9325]

Gara gara corona

[@martinkurek1940]

He's French, no doubt about it. A man of French background for sure. I would say he's 101% French.

[@salimkacel7153]

He's German 😏 just born in Paris

[@GraciaBelievesthatJesusSaves]

Its said how people can be jalouse at someone and try to knock down someone and try to overtrow ideas that are working ok in exchange for controle and power ," as Jesus Said it The Love for money is the root of all evil " no good people no good ,stop stop in Jesus Name 🙍🏻‍♀️😢 jalousy and envy and hunger for power and money will always leave destruction and ruin

[@DonS-ff2yt]

Diesel crossed $1 per litre in india..he might be happy

[@WernerAlbrecht-r6f]

What utter nonsens ! franco-german? There was not the slightest bit franco in Diesel !

[@bobadler3097]

I did a report on this man in 4th grade I believe. I was sad at the time he "committed suicide". As an adult, it's pretty effing obvious what happened to the man who was going to give the world an engine that runs on peanut oil......he probably committed suicide the same way jefferey epstein did.

[@user-uw2px3si3u]

Yea and McAfee

[@shwugyytcodm]

And it’s not that many greats that’s just always what I say LOL

[@riteshpahladsingh3819]

Poor Rudolf, he thought his invention was a failure, so he committed suicide, never knowing that the diesel engine would become one of the greatest most successful invention.

[@trustme2674]

"suicide"

[@knutz7]

Failure ? Are you serious? It was the best engine going at the time, sold who knows how many of them to make him a millionaire. Standards oil monopoly’s JD Rockefeller had a LOT to lose & co-incidentally invented “diesoline”.? Murder.

[@isnarahayu9325]

Pelajaran di sekolah sebelum pere

[@alvin3758]

apsih ntot

[@OracleOfDalePhi]

When everyone actually wakes up from whatever condition it is that they're in let me know would you?

[@jomelcapoquian2335]

Vin Diesel invented Diesel.