Editing Diesel engine (section)

====1900s====
[[File:Dieselmotor vs.jpg|thumb|right|An MAN DM trunk piston diesel engine built in 1906. The MAN DM series is considered to be one of the first commercially successful diesel engines.<ref name="Sass_1962_524" />]]
* 1901: Imanuel Lauster designs the first [[trunk piston]] diesel engine (DM 70).<ref name="Sass_1962_524" />
* 1901: By 1901, [[MAN SE|MAN]] had produced 77 diesel engine cylinders for commercial use.<ref name="Sass_1962_523" />
* 1903: Two first diesel-powered ships are launched, both for river and canal operations: The ''[[Vandal (tanker)|Vandal]]'' [[naphtha]] tanker and the ''[[Samrat (ship)|Sarmat]]''.<ref name="Sass_1962_532" />
* 1904: The French launch the first diesel [[submarine]], the [[Aigrette-class submarine|Aigrette]].<ref name="Tucker2014" />
* 1905: January 14: Diesel applies for a patent on unit injection (L20510I/46a).<ref name="Sass_1962_501" />
* 1905: The first diesel engine [[turbocharger]]s and [[intercooler]]s are manufactured by Büchi.<ref name="Hartman" />
* 1906: The Diesel Motoren-Fabrik Actien-Gesellschaft is dissolved.<ref name="Sass_1962_486" />
* 1908: Diesel's patents expire.<ref name="Sass_1962_530" />
* 1908: The first lorry ([[truck]]) with a diesel engine appears.<ref name="Reif_O_2014_7" />
* 1909: March 14, [[Prosper L'Orange]] applies for a patent on [[indirect injection#Precombustion chamber|precombustion chamber injection]].<ref name="Sass_1962_610" />  He later builds the first diesel engine with this system.<ref name="vFersen_1986_272" /><ref name="Merker_2014_382" />