Diesel
/ˈdiːzəl/- Diesel, Rudolf (Christian Karl) (1858-1913), French-born German engineer, inventor of the diesel engine. In 1892 he patented a design for a new, more efficient internal-combustion engine and developed it, exhibiting the prototype in 1897.狄塞尔, 鲁道夫(·克里斯琴·卡尔)(1858-1913, 法国出生的德国工程师, 发明了柴油机; 1892年他为一项新的效率更高的内燃机的设计申请了专利, 并进行了研制, 于1897年展出其原型)。