The Mysterious Death of Rudolf Diesel

On October 10th, 1913, a Dutch coastguard vessel came across the body of a man floating in the North Sea. The crew members recovered a wallet, pocket knife, spectacles case and pill holder from the man’s person, but then, as was customary at the time, returned the corpse to the sea. Three days later, in Vlissingen, Holland, Eugen Diesel identified the items as belonging to his father, Rudolf, the renowned German engineer famous for inventing the engine that bears his name.