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THE second law of thermodynamics, and the theory of dissipation founded upon it, has been for some years a favourite subject with mathematical physicists, but has not hitherto received full recognition from engineers and chemists, nor from the scientific public. And yet the question under what circumstances it is possible to obtain work from heat is of the first importance. Merely to know that when work is done by means of heat, a so-called equivalent of heat disappears, is a very small part of what it concerns us to recognise.
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On the Dissipation of Energy * . Nature 11, 454–455 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011454a0
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