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unusual facts about Sadi Carnot


Sadi Carnot

Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837–1894), president of the third French Republic, and nephew of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot


Atmospheric thermodynamics

In the early 19th century thermodynamicists such as Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius, and Émile Clapeyron developed mathematical models on the dynamics of bodies fluids and vapors related to the combustion and pressure cycles of atmospheric steam engines; one example is the Clausius-Clapeyron equation.

Carnot, Central African Republic

The city takes its name as a tribute to the assassinated French President Sadi Carnot.

Hippolyte Carnot

Hippolyte was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and second son of the revolutionary politician Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon.

Parfait-Louis Monteil

The successful expedition across West Africa impressed the statesman Théophile Delcassé, who took Monteil to meet the President of France, Sadi Carnot on 4 May 1893.

Robert Stirling

The theoretical basis of Stirling's engine, the Stirling cycle, would not be fully understood until the work of Sadi Carnot (1796–1832).

Thermodynamics

Drawing on all the previous work led Sadi Carnot, the "father of thermodynamics", to publish Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824), a discourse on heat, power, energy and engine efficiency.


see also

Caserio

Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873–1894), Italian anarchist and assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot

Forges de Syam

Alphonse's granddaughter, who had married the son of Sadi-Carnot in 1910, would often stay at Syam.