W. Robert Nitske was a lifelong student of the
internal-combustion engine and wrote several books and many
articles for periodicals.
Charles Morrow Wilson was the author of more than twenty
books, among them Stars Is God's Lanterns: An Offering of Ozark
Tellin' Stories.
Diesel was ten years younger than Edison and Westinghouse and five
years senior to Ford, yet his technological achievements must rank
with theirs in relation to the production and utilization of power.
Unlike the Americans, however, Diesel was much more the theoretical
engineer and much less the mechanic. His career provides an
interesting and contrasting case study of the
inventor-entrepreneur."" - Harvard Business Review
""This sympathetic and well-written biography also illuminates the
. . . times in which [Diesel] lived. . . . A worthwhile addition to
both technical and general collections."" - Library Journal
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