Description: Minor shelf handling wear to dust jacket, covers, and pages, including some handling and small areas of discoloration on the dj and small return address label inside front cover. Include errata glued onto one of the early pages. OCR scan of some of the pages: Diesel's Engine is the readable andcomprehensive history of the man and theengine. It traces the life of an obsessedengineer and his contemporaries whobrought the world's most efficient heatmachine to the marketplace. RudolfDiesel's ideas were often ahead of theirtime, and his engine endured failures andsetbacks until new technologies werefound. Only interim, imaginative solu-tions overcame the frustrating problemsencountered.What Rudolf invented, as perceivedby his peer defenders and detractors intechnical forums and courts of law, isviewed with an advantage of historicalhindsight.His engine created an internationalindustry through the struggles of risk-tak-ing licensees who turned it into a reliable,land-based powerplant. It soon went tosea as propulsion for commerce andunderwater weapons of destruction.These dedicated licensee companies,with their strengths and frailties and thegradually maturing products they builtare related with an understanding andempathy by one who both knew of andfaced similar experiences at a later time.Above all, Diesel's Engine is about atroubled man who devoted his life to adream, yet at his zenith of fame lost con-trol over its fate. Cover: A stained glass window at theMAN B&W Diesel AG administrationbuilding in Augsburg depicting Diesel's1897 engine. Courtesy of MAN. Table of Contents Preface IntroductionEpilogueBibliographyIndex Go From Your Country and Your Father's HouseIce, Ammonia and AirThe Paper Engine- Carnot's LegacyFor Sale: A DreamTrial and Tribulation 1893-1894Light at the End of the Tunnel 1895-1896Plaudits, Patents and PurgatoryThe Proof of the Pudding ... 1897-1900Diesel's International Family 1897-1900Next Generation EnginesThe American Diesel EnterpriseThe Prudent OnesNew Ways to Light the FireFree and Open CompetitionProphesy Fulfilled: Marine Diesels 1903-1910Cargos of Commerce: Marine Diesels 1911-1918Cargos of Death: Naval Engines 1911-1918Locomotives and LorriesRudolf Diesel: The Final Years
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Book Title: Diesel's Engine Volume One From Conception to 1918
Signed: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Carnot Press
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Book
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Yes
Author: C. Lyle Cummins Jr.
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Business, Economics & Industry, Engineering & Technology, Historical, History, Mathematics & Sciences, Military, Physics, Transportation, Travel, War & Combat, Technology & Engineering
Topic: Automobiles, Mechanical Engineering, Ships, Automotive, Propulsion, Trucks, Engineering, History
Number of Pages: 746
