Summary
On August 10, 1893, his first engine ran by itself, and five years later he got a United States patent for it. 📜
Key Points
3 points1
Rudolf Diesel wanted a machine that could help lots of people.
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His engine worked on its own for the first time on August 10, 1893.
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He earned a United States patent for the engine on August 9, 1898.
New Words to Learn
5 wordsauspicious
meaning lucky or good timing
prime model
the first important version
patent
a special paper that says someone invented something
internal-combustion engine
a machine that makes power by burning fuel inside it
fuelled
what made something work or move
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