The Stuff Of Genius: How Rudolf Diesel Changed the World

Born in 1858, Rudolf Diesel was fascinated by engines from a young age. However, the engines of the time were incredibly inefficient -- at least, that is, until Rudolf's Stuff of Genius struck. Tune in and learn more in this podcast.

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[sf200425997]

0:33 - why do you, Americans always have to bastardize other languages? It's either Munich or München - not all that difficult to pronounce...

[june201955]

I heard that he was forced to sell his diesel patent for 10K and then later died a poor pauper.

[Cougar545x39]

@dabillz41 Well...due to youtube everybody is retarded. Retards would call any engineer a retard for any given reason.

[dabillz41]

@sf200425997 explain to me how I am the uneducated one if we have some of the best institutions and I go to one of the more prestigious ones for one of the most difficult degrees to achieve? If it makes you happy, I'll go over to w/e lesser country you are from and out perform you there? You STILL haven't addressed how anything about my position is wrong btw

[sf200425997]

@dabillz41 It takes a logical person to understand an argument, so I don't really expect you do to so. Stereotypical American. Full of himself, ignorant and uneducated.

[dabillz41]

Respond to this video... That was literally all my comment said. That he shouldn't be expected to cater to your grammar nazi needs for an Englishman to pronounce German correctly when it looks like MUNCHEN on fucking paper you stupid fucking piece of shit. It is impossible for anyone to argue that statement and because you tried, and failed to even bring up a point relevant to my original comment, I am left to conclude that you are FUCKING RETARDED. That will be all. Good day sir.

[dabillz41]

@sf200425997 I don't think you understood the fact that I am more educated than thou. I'm still waiting for you to address anything I said as being wrong because all I see is a little BITCH who can't even back up his original reason for commenting in the first place. Which was? To say?? That we should expect people to innately understand German and all of its special characters?? The person in the video pronounced it the way it would be in English, HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE.

[homeboyskilletfresh]

@sf200425997 stfu, u look like a tool on youtube. No one gives a shit about u or your opinion. Your just another brick in the wall, nothing special.

[sf200425997]

@dabillz41 hahhhaha, you're just weak :) Go find somebody as uneducated as you are, who might consider your bullshit to be arguments. I don't care what 'major' you have. An idiot with a paper is an idiot nevertheless.

[dabillz41]

@sf200425997 GO FUCK YOURSELF! No one said thats how you pronounce it...I'm saying no one gives a fuck. I'm sure there is a correct term for the double dots over the U. Guess what...No fucks given about what it might be so YEAH, I called it a foreign operator. I do homework, believe me. I have a real engineering major sequence. It's pretty fucking hard. What was yours? German isn't special. You are not special, and the common person isn't going to know how to pronounce that word.

[sf200425997]

@dabillz41 you can disagree as much as you like to my amusement. Foreign operator? Just stop talking and walk away :) You're laughable.

München still isn't pronounced the way you think it is. Another thing is the fact that both the author and you missed the fact that the name of this city has an internationalized version - Munich. Do your homework before you disagree the next time.

PS. German isn't my native language. I learnt it. I know; you can't expect people to learn and be less ignorant.