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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel invented the diesel engine in 1892. The first diesel oil was invented by trial-and-error method by Rudolf Diesel while trying to find a fuel to run the engine invented by him. Diesel's invention was a petrodiesel, which uses petroleum, but diesel can refer to a wide variety of chemical compound fuels.

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