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100 1 _aCarnot, Sadi,
_d1796-1832
245 1 0 _aReflections on the motive power of heat
250 _aSecond, revised, edition.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Motive_Power_of_Fire
500 _aRelease date is 2026-05-05
508 _aRichard 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)
520 _aReflections 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: J. Wiley, 1890
653 _aThermodynamics
700 1 _aKelvin, William Thomson, Baron,
_d1824-1907
700 1 _aCarnot, H.
_q(Hippolyte),
_d1801-1888
700 1 _aThurston, Robert Henry,
_d1839-1903
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/reflectionsonmot00carnrich
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78610
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