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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - The production of motion...

The production of motion in steam-engines is always accompanied by... the re-establishing of equilibrium in the caloric; that is, its passage from a body in which the temperature is more or less elevated, to another in which it is lower. (Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot)

The production of motion in steam-engines is always accompanied by... the re-establishing of equilibrium in the caloric; that is, its passage from a body in which the temperature is more or less elevated, to another in which it is lower.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

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