Reels tagged #engine
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Inventions
Diesel's first engines ran on peanut oil
Rudolf Diesel demonstrated his engine on vegetable oil in 1900, envisioning farmers fuelling their own machinery long before biodiesel existed.
Inventions
Two enemies invented the jet engine separately
Frank Whittle in Britain and Hans von Ohain in Germany developed jet engines independently in the 1930s, with neither aware of the other's work.