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365 days of German history
Every day is historic! Do you want to know which key events took place in history on your date of birth? Or are you preparing for the next school presentation or Trivial Pursuit evening? The historical calendar from the Deutschlandmuseum shows you what happened in German history on each day of the year: major events, historical anniversaries, significant inventions, important birthdays and much more.
An innovation in engine construction
In 1892, engineer and inventor Rudolf Diesel filed the first patent application for a “new rational heat engine”. Despite his insights, the engineers at Maschinenfabrik Augsburg (later MAN), with whom Diesel worked, needed a lot of trial and error to produce the first functioning diesel engine on 28 January 1897. [...]
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