The production of motion in steam-engines is always accompanied by... the re-establishing of equilibrium in the caloric; that is, its passage from a … - Nicolas Carnot

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The production of motion in steam-engines is always accompanied by... the re-establishing of equilibrium in the caloric; that is, its passage from a body in which the temperature is more or less elevated, to another in which it is lower.

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About Nicolas Carnot

(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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