Reflections on the motive power of heat : $b and on machines fitted to develop that power

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Reflections on the motive power of heat : $b and on machines fitted to develop that power

by Sadi Carnot, Baron William Thomson Kelvin

EN·~5 hours·12 chapters

Chapters

12 total
1

Transcriber’s Note:

0:10
2

REFLECTIONS ON THE Motive Power of Heat.

1:44
3

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.

4:30
4

NOTE BY THE EDITOR.

2:29
5

NOTE TO SECOND EDITION.

1:05
6

I. THE WORK OF SADI CARNOT.

24:09
7

II. LIFE OF SADI CARNOT.

21:25
8

III. REFLECTIONS ON THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT, AND ON MACHINES FITTED TO DEVELOP THAT POWER.

1:43:03
9

IV. CARNOT’S THEORY OF THE MOTIVE POWER OF HEAT. WITH NUMERICAL RESULTS DEDUCED FROM REGNAULT’S EXPERIMENTS ON STEAM.

1:17:27
10

APPENDIX A. EXTRACTS FROM UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS OF CARNOT.

37:01

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Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (322K characters)

Release date

2026-05-05

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the authors

SC

Sadi Carnot

1796–1832

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Baron William Thomson Kelvin

Baron William Thomson Kelvin

1824–1907

A pioneering physicist and engineer, he helped shape modern ideas about heat, energy, and electricity while also working on practical problems such as telegraphy and navigation. His name lives on in the Kelvin temperature scale, a reminder of how deeply his work changed science.

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