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New Power Sources

2018; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-95606-0_8

1875-3442

David F. Channell,

History of Science and Natural History

This chapter analyzes how new knowledge of thermodynamics led to improved sources of power such as the internal combustion engine, the four cycle engine and the Diesel engine. The chapter focuses on the work of Étienne Lenoir in France, Nikolaus Otto in Germany, Alphonse-Eugène Beau de Rochas in France, and Rudolf Diesel in Germany.