Gas Dynamics Cycles of Thermal and Refrigerating Machines

Abstract

On 26 July 1824 year, at a session of section on general physics of French Academy of sciences, the academician P. Gerard has stated the contents of the book of the young French engineer Sadie Carnot “Reflections about driving force of a fire and machines, capable to develop this force”. On this session there were practically all scientific stars of France: Navier, Laplace, Fourier, Gay-Lussac, Poisson and other, which, unfortunately, could not estimate ingenious ideas, incorporated in work Sadie Carnot. The scientific and engineering world of France has not displayed in any form of interest to work S. Carnot. And only through a few tens of years, due to work Clapeyron, Thomson, Clausius it has become clear, that Carnot has for the first time formulated the basic laws of thermodynamics and under the right it is considered founder of this classical discipline. The great physicist Thomson (lord Kelvin) has named the book Carnot “as the largest achievement of a science XIX of century”.