Vin Diesel is named after famous inventor Rudolf diesel. Diesel died from a suspicious suicide. They said he jumped off a boat.

Diesel saw his engine as a tool that was adaptable in size and cost, but also able to use available fuels,” Stein wrote. “It would allow independent craftsmen to avoid having to use expensive, fuel-wasting steam engines. It would help the small businessman try to beat out the big companies.”

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