William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Quote

It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive a mechanical effect from a portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest surrounding bodies.


Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (March 1851)


It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive a mechanical effect from a portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of...

It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive a mechanical effect from a portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of...

It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive a mechanical effect from a portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of...

It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive a mechanical effect from a portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of...