e/Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire

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has gloss	eng: In the history of thermodynamics, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power (French title: Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance) is an 1824, 65-page book by French physicist Sadi Carnot on a generalized theory of heat engines and is considered the founding work in the science of thermodynamics. In it is found the preliminary outline of the second law of thermodynamics, namely that motive power is due to the fall of caloric (heat) from a hot to cold body. The paper sat unnoticed until 1834 when French mining engineer Emile Clapeyron put it on a graphical footing in his "Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat". Through Clapeyrons paper, German physicist Rudolf Clausius learned of Carnots theory of heat and through a modification of Carnots suppositions on heat, Clausius put the second law in mathematical form with his introduction of the concept of entropy. By 1849, "thermo-dynamics", as a functional term, was used in William Thomsons paper An Account of Carnot's Theory of the Motive Power of Heat.
lexicalization	eng: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
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