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IV. [1]
CARNOT'S THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT. [2]
WITH NUMERICAL RESULTS DEDUCED FROM REGNAULT'S EXPERIMENTS ON STEAM. [3]
By Sir William Thomson [Lord Kelvin].
1. The presence of heat may be recognized in every natural object; and there is scarcely an operation in nature which is not more or less
- ↑ From Transactions of the Edinburgh Royal Society, xiv. 1849; Annales de Chimie, xxxv. 1852.
- ↑ Published in 1824, in a work entitled "Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu, et sur les Machines Propres à Developer cette Puissance. Par S. Carnot." [Note of Nov. 5, 1881. The original work has now been republished, with a biographical notice, Paris, 1878.]
- ↑ An account of the first part of a series of researches undertaken by Mons. Regnault, by order of the late French Government, for ascertaining the various physical data of importance in the theory of the steam-engine, has
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