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  • Nicolas Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) published Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu.

    1820 2001

  • Sadi Carnot, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu (Paris, 1824; facsimile ed. 1953), trans.

    TECHNOLOGY D. S. L. CARDWELL 1968

  • Sadi Carnot (1824), though still labouring under the caloric theory, advanced the problem substantially in his remarkable paper, "Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu", by considering the question of the relation of quantity of heat to amount of work done, and by introducing the conception of a machine with a reversible cycle of operations.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • "Mémoire sur la puissance motrice de la chaleur (The motive power of heat)".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "Puissance motrice de la chaleur (The motive power of heat)".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "Mémoire sur la puissance motrice de la chaleur (The motive power of heat)".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "Mémoire sur la puissance motrice de la chaleur (The motive power of heat)".

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Les mêmes positions peuvent également être enseignées par un kinésithérapeute, sous forme d'exercices dérivés des « niveaux d'évolution motrice » de TARDIEU et LE METAYER, encore appelés « positions de BOBATH » ou « travail au tapis ».

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Now these vast powers were always there -- no law of nature was broken, nor any new one introduced, when they were utilised to lighten man's labours and multiply his energies; all that has happened is that man has discovered existing laws and harnessed them to his use, and once more the real _force motrice_ resides not in those silently-revolving engines that generate the electric current, but in the mind that devised and controls them.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • At Vis inerriar pugnat cum vi motrice, fi viribus iftis fimul re (] ondeant eife£lus C.A. fi fucceflive N.A. & Cm. Ad Prob.

    Francisci Tessanek ... Elementa physicae Franz Tessanek 1768

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