Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines… - Nicolas 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.

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.

Heat can evidently be a cause of motion only by virtue of the changes of volume or of form which it produces in bodies.

[I]f we should find about us only bodies as hot as our furnaces, how can we condense steam? What should we do with it if once produced?

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