Heat Engines

Download or read book Heat Engines written by John F. Sandfort and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Sandfort's history of the invention and perfection of the steam engine and the early theoretical research of Carnot, Joule, Clausius, Thompson and others is an often amusing and always fascinating story. But the main purpose of his book is to give the reader at least an elementary understanding of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, the significance of temperature, and the principle of the reversible heat engine--the theoretical foundations upon which our technological age has grown.