Diesel Technology and Society in Industrial Germany

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. "Diesel examines the life and work of the inventor Rudolf Diesel as a case study in technological, economic, and intellectual trends during the period of Germany's industrial revolution and transition to a technologically creative nation. It is the first comprehensive study of Diesel since Eugen Diesel's biography of his father in 1937 and the first English-language biography to be based on a thorough examination of the Diesel archives and family papers" (jacket). It is both a biography of Diesel as well as a study of his invention of the diesel engine.

8vo. Light pink cloth covered boards with black title to spine. Pristine interior. Dark purple dust jacket with pink title to frontpanel and light green title to spine. Index, 279 pages. German History. GERHIS/020711.