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Why is diesel called diesel?

The diesel engine, and hence diesel fuel, were named after the German engineer *Rudolf Diesel*, who invented and patented the diesel engine in 1892. Originally, diesel engines were designed to run on vegetable oil, but Diesel later found that they could also run on petroleum-based fuels.
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