02381cam a22003733u 4500 78610 UtSlPG 20260610134825.0 m cr n 260607r20261890utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 QC Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832 Reflections on the motive power of heat Second, revised, edition. Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Motive_Power_of_Fire Release date is 2026-05-05 Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power (French: Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance) is a scientific treatise written by the French military engineer Sadi Carnot. Published in 1824 in French, the short book (118 pages in the original) 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. Carnot's Reflections is now widely regarded as a key document in the development of modern thermodynamics, and Carnot himself (who published nothing else during his lifetime) has often been identified as the "father of thermodynamics". The book introduced such concepts as thermodynamic efficiency, reversible processes, the thermodynamic cycle, and Carnot's theorem. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) Originally published: New York: J. Wiley, 1890 Thermodynamics Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 Carnot, H. (Hippolyte), 1801-1888 Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 https://archive.org/details/reflectionsonmot00carnrich https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78610 119328 119328