Rudolph Diesel and Peanut Oil

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After struggling for years on the design of the combustion engine in the late 19th century, Rudolph Diesel finally invented what was to be called the diesel engine. But it didn't run on fossil fuels. It was his ambition to show that peanut oil was a far better fuel than the steam engines powered by coal and other fossil fuels.

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