If America were a saner place, Washington would have more than two political parties, Major League Baseball would never have created the designated hitter, and we’d all be driving cars with clean, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Douglas Brunt discusses what diesel engines are. Corner Bookstore in New York City hosted this event and author Joseph Kanon served as the ...

“No inventor was more disruptive to the established order than Rudolf Diesel,” writes historian and novelist Brunt (Trophy Son) in this thrilling investigation. The French-German inventor of the ...

Bestselling author Douglas Brunt will his discuss his nonfiction debut, “The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel,” during an online conversation — courtesy of Mentor Public Library — at 3 p.m. May 1.

Today everybody knows about Diesel engines. They are everywhere—on streamlined trains, long-distance trucks, planes, ships, submarines. The fire-fated German dirigible Hindenburg was Diesel-powered; ...

Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine, circa 1883 (Public domain/via Wikimedia) On episode 42, Charles answers a question about the game of Rugby, and then talks to Douglas Brunt about his ...

Major drawback of Diesel engines ever since Rudolf Diesel built the first in Germany 42 years ago has been their heftiness. Although the oil a Diesel burns is cheaper than gasoline and its principle ...

Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel engine, was highly sought after by global industries and ...

“The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I” by Douglas Brunt, Atria Books, 384 pages, $28.99. “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel” is a true tale ...

German engineer Rudolph Diesel surely would be proud to see how far his innovation has come. It was in 1894 when he came up with a variation of the piston engine, one that would use compressed air ...