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*[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Carnot_Sadi.html MacTutor biography of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot] | *[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Carnot_Sadi.html MacTutor biography of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot] | ||
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# "Reflexions sur la Puissance Motrice de Feu et sur les Machines Propres a Développer cette Puissance" (1824) | |||
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 - August 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics.
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- "Reflexions sur la Puissance Motrice de Feu et sur les Machines Propres a Développer cette Puissance" (1824)