The title essay, along with related papers in this volume, laid the foundation of modern thermodynamics. Highly readable, it contains no arguments that depend on calculus. Translation of 1890 edition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Reflections on the Motive of Fire, and on Machines Fitted to Develop That Power by Sadi Carnot, translated and edited by R. H. Thurston
Appendix: Selections from Posthumous Manuscripts of Carnot, translated by R. H. Thurston and E. Mendoza
Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat by É. Clapeyron, translated and edited by E. Mendoza
On the Motive Power of Heat, and on the Laws Which Can Be Deduced from it for the Theory of Heat by R. Clausius, translated by W. F. Magie
