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.

— Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat and on Machines Fitted to Develop Power (1824)

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