When 'thermal agency' is thus spent in conducting heat through a solid, what becomes of the mechanical effect which it might produce? Nothing can be lost in the operations of nature—no energy can be destroyed.


'An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat; with Numerical Results Deduced from Regnault's Experiments on Steam' (1849)

William Thomson Quotes

When 'thermal agency' is thus spent in conducting heat through a solid, what becomes of the mechanical effect which it might produce? Nothing can be...

When 'thermal agency' is thus spent in conducting heat through a solid, what becomes of the mechanical effect which it might produce? Nothing can be...

When 'thermal agency' is thus spent in conducting heat through a solid, what becomes of the mechanical effect which it might produce? Nothing can be...

When 'thermal agency' is thus spent in conducting heat through a solid, what becomes of the mechanical effect which it might produce? Nothing can be...