Timeline Saturday 27 February 1892

Events on Saturday 27 February 1892 2

• 1892 Diesel patents compression ignition No spark required Rudolf Diesel files a patent for an engine that compresses air so violently that injected fuel ignites from the heat alone. His stated aim is efficiency — he wants to give small workshops an engine that can compete with the great steam plants. The result is the most thermally efficient engine type ever built, and the workhorse of every ship, lorry and locomotive of the following century.
• 1892 Rudolf Diesel patents the diesel engine German patent filed for a new combustion engine Engineer Rudolf Diesel filed a German patent for a compression-ignition internal combustion engine. The design, aimed at higher efficiency than the steam engine, became the basis for diesel engines used worldwide in transport and industry.