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

The production of motive power is then due... not to an actual consumption of caloric, but to its transportation from a warm body to a cold body... to its re-establishment of equilibrium... (Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot)

The production of motive power is then due... not to an actual consumption of caloric, but to its transportation from a warm body to a cold body... to its re-establishment of equilibrium...

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

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