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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Notwithstanding the work of all kinds done by steam-engines... their theory is very little understood, and the attempts to improve them are still directed almost by chance.

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Savery, Newcomen, Smeaton, the famous Watt, Woolf, Trevithick, and some other English engineers, are the veritable creators of the steam-engine.

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

There is almost as great a distance between the first apparatus in which the expansive force of steam was displayed and the existing machine, as between the first raft that man ever made and the modern vessel.

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Steam navigation... tends to unite the nations of the earth as inhahitants of one country. ...is not this the same as greatly to shorten distances?

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

To take away to-day from England her steam-engines would be to take away at the same time her coal and iron. It would be to dry up all her sources of wealth, to ruin all on which her prosperity depends, in short, to annihilate that colossal power.

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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Iron and heat are... the supporters, the bases, of the mechanic arts.

genius nicholaas hartsoeker

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all places, heat and the impelling power which is the result of it. To develop this power, to appropriate it to our uses, is the object of heat-engines.