The Life and Ideas of
Sadi Carnot
1796-1832
Ben Townsend --- Physics 212
--- 4/12/03
Sadi
Carnot was a French engineer (one of the few engineers that history remembers)
who contributed greatly to the development of the field of thermodynamics. Although
he only published one paper, which went largely unrecognized during his life,
a testament to the influence of his ideas is the fact that his ideal heat engine
is well known to modern day students of thermodynamics.
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These are the only two published portraits
of Carnot, found on www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadi_Carnot and scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/CarnotSadi.html
