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> The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
by tareqak 3y ago
> The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine
- ribs 3y agoI don't think this is one of those kinds of things, is it?
- mistercow 3y agoThat seems pretty expected. If you’d asked me to guess where the word diesel came from, I probably would have guessed a name. Compare that to German chocolate cake, which seems preposterous.
- phinnaeus 3y agoGerman's Chocolate Cake is probably a better name for it. I knew something as up with that one the first time I met a german person and they had never heard of my favorite cake. Baker's chocolate was a surprise to me though, I've always made my German's Chocolate Cake with Baker's chocolate...
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- dudeinjapan 3y agoVin Diesel, named after the engine, was originally Mark Sinclair. Which is actually not a bad name.