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Quotes from Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop Power — Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

1796–1832 France

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The driving power of heat is independent of the agents used to realize it; its value is uniquely fixed by the temperatures of the bodies between which the transfer of caloric is made.

Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop Power (1824)

In order to consider in the most general way the principle of the production of motion by heat, it must be considered independently of any mechanism or any particular agent. It is necessary to establish principles applicable not only to steam engines but to all imaginable heat-engines, whatever the working substance and whatever the method by which it is operated.

Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop Power (1824)

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