It’s a word that crosses most people’s lips on a regular basis, and one which almost always goes erroneously uncapitalized. It is a technology that revolutionized the world in a very short time, its implementation driven by industry and by war.
He was a world-class inventor whose peers included the likes of Thomas Edison and titans of industry such as Adolphus Busch. At the peak of his career, Rudolf Diesel was a world-famous inventor, his genius on display at fairs around the globe. Industries, companies, governments, militaries… all sought to lure him into their organizations.
On September 29, 1913, Rudolf Diesel disappeared, never to be seen again. Murder? Suicide? Accident? With his diesel engine threatening powerful industrialists and a full-fledged European arms race in progress, many certainly had motive.
After eight long years of research, author Douglas Brunt has produced a spellbinding account of the life and times of arguably the greatest inventor of whom nobody has heard. I promise the ending will shock you.
The Prairie Fiddler 