In the year January 1880, Rudolf began to work as an apprentice in the Sulzer Engine Works in Winterthur, Switzerland. The Company was involved in building refrigeration and steam engine; Rudolf Diesel was always impressed by both.
The History, Role and Mission of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms. and Explosives. The ATFE, a federal law enforcement agency, operates with a budget of $1.15 billion (as of 2012) and has 4,770 employees, 2,442 of whom are ATFE special agents.
And in 2011, the Bureau was implicated in a failed gun-trafficking operation in which its agents allowed guns to slip into Mexico; two were later used in Arizona to kill a federal border agent. The ATF used to be administered within the US Department of the Treasury, but was transferred to the Department of Justice in 2003.