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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power.
significant book by the French physicist Sadi Carnot
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Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power is a scientific treatise written by the French military engineer Sadi Carnot. Published in 1824 in French, the short book sought to advance a rational theory of heat engines. At the time, heat engines had acquired great technological and economic importance, but very little was understood about them from the point of view of physics.
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