Sadi Carnot was a French physicist and military engineer whose 1824 analysis of heat engines, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, is commonly dated as the start of thermodynamics as a field of study.
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Heat Engine, Concepts Carnot's Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824) founded the theoretical study of heat engines, introducing the idealized Carnot cycle as the limit on their efficiency.
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Born: June 1, 1796, Paris, Fr.
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Died: Aug. 24, 1832, Paris (aged 36)
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Sadi Carnot was a French scientist who described the Carnot cycle, relating to the theory of heat engines.
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In his essay, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance (Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire), published in 1824, Carnot tackled the essence of the process, not concerning himself as others had done with its mechanical details.
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