SHELL OIL CO. “THE DIESEL STORY“ RUDOLF DIESEL & DEVELOPMENT OF DIESEL ENGINE 48124

The Diesel Story is a short 1952 film that gives viewers a brief overview of how early internal combustion engines functioned as well as a short history of the development of the diesel engine from the different prototypes developed by Rudolf Diesel during the late 19th to the modern diesel engines used in a wide variety of machines. The film opens with footage of men crushing grain by hand, a windmill, and an industrial town. Coal miners mine coal with pickaxes. The film shows some of the early internal combustion engines (02:05), such as the four-stroke Otto silent gas engine. Animation is used to show how a four-stroke engine works (02:42). Two men climb into an early car model and take it for a drive (03:10). Next, the film shows the “hot bulb” engine designed in 1890 by Akroyd Stuart (03:30). A “Hornsby-Akroyd” hot bulb engine model is on display. A man turns the flag wheel of the engine (04:14), and the film uses animation to show how the piston and hot bulb function. Viewers see a picture of Rudolf Die