{"id":13036,"date":"2023-11-12T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13036"},"modified":"2024-01-01T21:11:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T21:11:23","slug":"diesels-disappearnce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/12\/diesels-disappearnce\/","title":{"rendered":"Diesel&#8217;s Disappearnce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/books\/rudolf-diesel-mystery-douglas-brunt-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One of the Greatest Inventors of Our Time Disappeared. This New Book Explores Why.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Douglas Brunt on writing \u201cThe Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/tobias-carroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TOBIAS CARROLL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Diesel Story (1952)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMdLbPS9R20?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine the shock if an inventor and businessman who had the ears of countless world leaders and military commanders suddenly went missing. That\u2019s not a rhetorical question, by the way \u2014 in 1913, while in the midst of a sea voyage, inventor Rudolf Diesel vanished while en route to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/food\/best-bars-london-leo-robitschek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">London<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the hundred-plus years since Diesel\u2019s disappearance, there\u2019s been a lot of speculation about what might have happened to him\u2014 and whether his disappearance was the result of foul play, a terrible accident or something entirely different. In his new book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-mysterious-case-of-rudolf-diesel-genius-power-and-deception-on-the-eve-of-world-war-i-douglas-brunt\/19723987?ean=9781982169909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I<\/em><\/a>, Douglas Brunt explores Diesel\u2019s life and impact on the world and offers an intriguing solution to the mystery that surrounded Diesel\u2019s exit from the world stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>InsideHook spoke with Brunt about Diesel\u2019s life and legacy, the unlikely directions his research went in and the early days of electric cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/books\/rudolf-diesel-mystery-douglas-brunt-interview\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobiascarroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook One of the Greatest Inventors of Our Time Disappeared. This New Book Explores Why. Douglas Brunt on writing \u201cThe Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel\u201d BY\u00a0TOBIAS CARROLL Imagine the shock if an inventor and businessman who had the ears of countless world leaders and military commanders suddenly went missing. That\u2019s not a rhetorical question, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}