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Reflections on the motive power of heat

Note 73 — 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

[Note added March 15, 1881. Total work for thermal unit, 1390 (Joule), 377.1 corrected by the dynamical theory, March 15, 1851.

377.1 = .2713 × 1390,

253 = .1820 × 1390 = 1 5.49 × 1390.]

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