Reflections on the motive power of heat
- Subtitle
- and on machines fitted to develop that power
Sadi Carnot and William Thomson Kelvin
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1. Front matter2. REFLECTIONS ON THE Motive Power of Heat.3. CONTENTS.4. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.5. NOTE BY THE EDITOR.6. NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.7. I. THE WORK OF SADI CARNOT.8. II. LIFE OF SADI CARNOT.9. III. REFLECTIONS ON THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT, AND ON MACHINES FITTED TO DEVELOP THAT POWER.[4]10. III. REFLECTIONS ON THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT, AND ON MACHINES FITTED TO DEVELOP THAT POWER.[4] (continued 2)11. IV.[34] CARNOT’S THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT.[35] WITH NUMERICAL RESULTS DEDUCED FROM REGNAULT’S EXPERIMENTS ON STEAM.[36]12. APPENDIX A. EXTRACTS FROM UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF CARNOT.13. APPENDIX B. CARNOT’S FOOT-NOTES.14. APPENDIX C. Note by the Editor.