Reflections on the motive power of heat

Note 35 — IV.[34] CARNOT’S THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT.[35] WITH NUMERICAL RESULTS DEDUCED FROM REGNAULT’S EXPERIMENTS ON STEAM.[36]

Robert Henry Thurston translation

Published in 1824, in a work entitled “Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu, et sur les Machines Propres à Developer cette Puissance. Par S. Carnot.” [Note of Nov. 5, 1881. The original work has now been republished, with a biographical notice, Paris, 1878.]

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