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dedicated this book, which she said was the third she had published on France, to Sadi Carnot
(not the scientist of that name, who had died in 1832, but Marie François Sadi Carnot, fourth...
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1824: Sadi Carnot established the two laws of thermodynamics...
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1824
Sadi Carnot
established the two laws of thermodynamics and published (on the second law) Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu.
1849: William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) coined...
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1849
William Thomson
(later Lord Kelvin) coined the term thermodynamics in an account of Sadi Carnot
's earlier theory of heat.
