Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot Quote

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.


Translated by W.F. Maggie, The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Memoirs by Carnot, Clausius, and Thompson


The phenomenon of the production of motion by heat has not been considered in a sufficiently general way... It is necessary to establish proofs...

The phenomenon of the production of motion by heat has not been considered in a sufficiently general way... It is necessary to establish proofs...

The phenomenon of the production of motion by heat has not been considered in a sufficiently general way... It is necessary to establish proofs...

The phenomenon of the production of motion by heat has not been considered in a sufficiently general way... It is necessary to establish proofs...