Carnot's contribution to thermodynamics

Martin J. Klein

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Sadi Carnot's first and only scientific work was published just one hundred and fifty years ago. It initiated the development of the classical thermodynamics that James Clerk Maxwell characterized so well as “a science with secure foundations, clear definitions, and distinct boundaries.” The role Carnot's ideas played in developing that science is the subject of this article.

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1970The Wave Theory of Heat: A Forgotten Stage in the Transition from the Caloric Theory to Thermodynamics 1960Sadi Carnot and the Steam Engine Engineers

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