2002-07-08 Was the iron cylinder a true 10 feet, or is that a conversion of 3 m?
John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carter, Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-07-08 11:42 Subject: [USMA:20891] RE: President Carter > French born of Bavarian parents. > > Though best known for his invention of the pressure-ignited heat engine that > bears his name, > the French-born Rudolf Diesel was also an eminent thermal engineer, a > connoisseur of the arts, > a linguist, and a social theorist. Diesel's inventions have three points in > common: They relate > to heat transference by natural physical processes or laws; they involve > markedly creative > mechanical design; and they were initially motivated by the inventor's > concept of > sociological needs. > > Diesel originally conceived the diesel engine as a facility, readily > adaptable in size and > costs and utilizing locally available fuels, to enable independent craftsmen > and artisans > better to endure the powered competition of large industries that then > virtually monopolized > the predominant power source-the oversized, expensive, fuel-wasting steam > engine. > During 1885 Diesel set up his first shop-laboratory in Paris and began his > 13-year ordeal of > creating his distinctive engine.. At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Diesel's > prime model, a > single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own > power for the first time. > Diesel spent two more years at improvements and on the last day of 1896 > demonstrated > another model with the spectacular, if theoretical, mechanical efficiency of > 75.6 percent, in > contrast to the then-prevailing efficiency of the steam engine of 10 percent > or less. Although > commercial manufacture was delayed another year and even then begun at > asnail's pace, by > 1898 Diesel was a millionaire from franchise fees in great part > international. His engines > were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and > trucks, and marine > craft, and soon after were used in applications including mines, oil fields, > factories, > and transoceanic shipping. > > http://www.germanembassy-india.org/news/june97/76gn16.htm > > Cheers > Baron Carter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Louis JOURDAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 08 July, 2002 10:29 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:20888] RE: President Carter > > > At 13:54 +0200 8/07/2002, Wizard of OS wrote: > >maybe you should add, the car is a european (german) invention > > > >Otto, Diesel and Wankel were germans, what a coincidence > > Right - but Lenoir, who in 1860 made the first 2-stroke engine with > controlled ignition (fed with gas) was a Belgian, Beau de Rochas who > developed in 1862 the theory of the 4-stroke engine was a French... > Otto made the first 4-stroke engine in 1876. And Rudolf Diesel was > born in 1858 in Paris! > > I appreciate you enthousiasm for Germany and German people, but don't > forget that Europe has a common cultural identity since a long time! > > Louis > >
