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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.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
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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.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
