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Quotes from Manual of Applied Mechanics — William John Macquorn Rankine

1820–1872 Scotland

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This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.

Manual of Applied Mechanics (1858)

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