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The production of motive power is then due... not to an actual consumption of caloric, but to its transportation from a warm body to a cold body... to its re-establishment of equilibrium...

Nicolas Carnot

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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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Rudolf Clausius Denis Papin William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Ludwig Boltzmann Viktor Schauberger

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We shall have [a complete theory] only when the laws of Physics shall be extended enough, generalized enough, to make known beforehand all the effects of heat acting in a determined manner on any body.

Iron and heat are... the supporters, the bases, of the mechanic arts.

[W]e have just described the re-establishment of equilibrium in the caloric, its passage from a... heated body to a cooler one.

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