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The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

The phenomenon of the production of motion by heat has not been considered in a sufficiently general way... It is necessary to establish proofs applicable not only to steam engines but to all other heat-engines, irrespective of the working substance and the manner in which it acts.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

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Born: June 1, 1796

Died: August 24, 1832 (aged 36)

Bio: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer and physicist, often described as the father of thermodynamics.

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