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History timeline

 

 

* 1893: Rudolf Diesel obtains a patent (RP 67207) titled [Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat-engine to Replace the Steam Engine and Combustion Engines Known Today] "Arbeitsverfahren und Ausführungsart für Verbrennungsmaschienen".

 

* 1897: On August 10 Diesel builds his first working prototype in Augsburg

 

* 1898 Diesel licences his engine to Branobel, Russian oil company, that is interested in the engine which can consume non-distilled oil. Branobel's engineers spent 4 years designing ship-mounted engine.

 

* 1899: Diesel licenses his engine to builders Krupp and Sulzer, who quickly become major manufacturers.

 

* 1902: until 1910 MAN produced 82 copies of the stationary diesel engine .

A diesel engine built by MAN AG in 1906

 

 

* 1903: Sormovo Shipbuilding Yard launches "Vandal" oil-tanker - first ship propelled by diesel engine.

 

* 1904: The French build the first diesel submarine, the Z.

 

* 1905: For diesel engines turbochargers and intercoolers were manufactured by Büchl (CH), as well as a scroll loader from Creux (F) company.

 

* 1908: Prosper L'Orange develops with Deutz a precisely controlled injection pump with a needle injection nozzle.

 

* 1909: The prechamber with hemispherical combustion chamber is developed by Prosper L'Orange with Benz.

 

* 1910: The Norwegian research ship Fram is the first ship of the world with a Diesel drive, afterwards Selandia was the first trading vessel. By 1960 the Diesel drive had displaced steam turbine and coal fired steam engines.

 

* 1912: The Danish built first diesel ship MS Selandia. The first locomotive with a diesel engine.

 

* 1913: U.S. Navy submarines use NELSECO units. Rudolf Diesel died mysteriously when he crossed the English Channel on the SS Dresden.

 

* 1914: German U-Boats are powered by MAN diesels.

 

* 1919: Prosper L'Orange obtains a patent on a prechamber insert and makes a needle injection nozzle. First diesel engine from Cummins.

 

* 1921: Prosper L'Orange builds a continuous variable output injection pump.

 

* 1922: First vehicle with (pre-chamber) diesel engine is theAgricultural tractor type 6 of Mercedes-Benz agricultural tractor OE Benz Sendling.

 

* 1923: first truck with diesel engine made by MAN, Benz and Daimler was tested.

 

* 1924: The introduction on the truck market of the diesel engine by commercial truck manufacturers in the IAA. Fairbanks-Morse starts building diesel engines.

 

* 1927: First truck injection pump and injection nozzles of Bosch. First passenger car prototype of Stoewer.

 

* 1930s: Caterpillar starts building diesels for their tractors.

 

* 1932: Introduction of strongest Diesel truck of the world by MAN with 160 hp (120 kW).

 

* 1933: of first passenger cars with diesel engine (Citroën Rosalie), Citroën uses an engine of the English Diesel pioneer sir Harry Ricardo . The car does not go into production due to legal restrictions in the use of Diesel engines.

 

* 1934: First turbo Diesel engine for railway train by Maybach.

 

* 1934–35: Junkers Motorenwerke in Germany starts production of the Jumo aviation diesel engine family, the most famous of these being the Jumo 205, of which over 900 examples are produced by the outbreak of World War II.

 

Rudolf Diesel's 1893 patent on his engine design

 

* 1936: Mercedes-Benz builds the 260D diesel car. AT&SF inaugurates the diesel train Super Chief. Airship Hindenburg is powered by diesel engines. First series manufactured passenger cars with diesel engine (Mercedes-Benz 260 D, Hanomag and Saurer). Daimler Benz airship diesel engine 602LOF6 for airship the LZ129 Hindenburg.

 

* 1937: BMW 114 (aircraft engine)|BMW 114 experimental airplane diesel engine development.

 

* 1938: First turbo Diesel engine of Saurer.

 

* 1944: Development of Air cooling for diesel engines by Klöckner Humboldt Deutz AG (KHD) for the production stage and later also for Magirus Deutz.

 

* 1953: Turbo Diesel truck for Mercedes in small series.

 

* 1954: Turbo-Diesel truck in mass production of Volvo. First diesel engine with an overhead cam shaft of Daimler Benz.

 

* 1968: Peugeot introduces the 204, the first small cars with a transversally mounted diesel engine and front-wheel drive.

 

* 1973: DAF produces an air-cooled diesel engine.

 

* 1976 February: Testing of a diesel engine of Volkswagen for the passenger car Volkswagen Golf. The Common Rail injection system was developed by the ETH Zurich from 1976 to 1992.

 

* 1977: The production of the first passenger car turbo-Diesels (Mercedes 300 SD).

 

* 1983: Grasshopper Mowers introduces the first zero-turn lawn mower powered by a diesel engine.

 

* 1985: ATI Intercooler diesel engine from DAF. First Common Rail system with the IFA truck type W50.

 

* 1986: Electronic Diesel Control (EDC) of Bosch with the BMW 524tD.

 

* 1987: Most powerful production truck with a 460 hp (340 kW) MAN diesel engine.

 

* 1988: First turbochargers with direct injection in the diesel engine from Fiat.

 

* 1991: European emission standards euro 1 met with the truck diesel engine of Scania.

 

* 1993: Pump nozzle injection introduced in Volvo truck engines.

 

* 1994: Unit injector system by Bosch for diesel engines.

 

* 1997: First common rail in passenger car, Alfa Romeo 156.

 

* 1998: BMW makes history by winning the 24 Hour Nuerburgring race with the 320d, powered by a two-liter, four-cylinder diesel engine. The combination of high-performance with better fuel efficiency allows the team to make fewer pit stops during the long endurance race.

 

* 1999: euro 3 of Scania and first Common Rail truck diesel engine of Renault.

 

* 2004: In Western Europe, the ratio of passenger cars with diesel engine exceeds 50%. Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system in Mercedes, Euro 4 with EGR system and particle filters of MAN. Piezoelectric injector technology by Bosch.

 

* 2006: AUDI R10 TDI wins 12 hours running in Sebring and defeats all other engine concepts. Euro 5 for all Iveco trucks.

 

* 2008: Subaru introduces the first horizontally-opposed diesel engine to be fitted to a passenger car. This is a Euro 5 compliant engine with an EGR system.

 

* 2009: Volvo claims the worlds strongest truck with their FH16 700. An inline 6 cylinder, 16 litre 700 hp (522 kW) diesel engine producing 3,150 N·m (2,320 lb·ft) of torque and fully complying with Euro 5 emission standards.

 

 

 

 

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