The maximum of motive power resulting from the employment of steam is also the maximum of motive power realizable by any means whatever. - Nicolas Carnot

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The maximum of motive power resulting from the employment of steam is also the maximum of motive power realizable by any means whatever.

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(French: [kaʁno]; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics". In his only publication, the 1824 monograph , Carnot gave the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of s. Carnot's work attracted little attention during his lifetime, but it was later used by Rudolf Clausius and Lord Kelvin to formalize the second law of thermodynamics and define the concept of .

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Native Name: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Alternative Names: Sadi Carnot • Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot • Leonard Sadi Carnot
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Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.
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Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all places, heat and the impelling power which is the result of it. To develop this power, to appropriate it to our uses, is the object of heat-engines.
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