Turbomachines - COSMOS

"Reflections on the Motive
Power of Fire"
• “The production of motive power is therefore due in
steam engines not to actual consumption of caloric
but to its transportation from a warm body to a cold
body.”
• —Carnot 1960, p. 7
• “In the fall of caloric, motive power evidently
increases with the difference of temperature between
the warm and cold bodies, but we do not know
whether it is proportional to this difference.”
• —Carnot 1960, p. 15