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" It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature. "
Textbook of Physical Chemistry - Page 283
by Azariah Thomas Lincoln - 1918 - 547 pages
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The North British review

1864 - 572 pages
...analogous to that of Caruot already given; but based on the additional axiom, that " It is impossible for a self-acting machine, -unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a hitJher temperature." Thomson, from one of whose papers 1 we have taken this notice, gives the above...
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Sketch of Thermodynamics

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1868 - 148 pages
...analogous to that of Carnot already given, but based on the additional axiom, that ' It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature.' Thomson, from one of whose papers 1 we have taken this notice, assumed instead...
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Theory of Heat

James Clerk Maxwell - 1871 - 344 pages
...into another at a lower temperature. Carnot expresses this law as follows : — It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature. Thomson gives it a slightly different form : — It is impossible, by means of...
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Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, Volume 20

1879 - 550 pages
...receive more than the hotter body. Clausius has, subsequently, restated it thus : "It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature." 2°. "It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical...
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Thermodynamics

Henry Turner Eddy - 1879 - 196 pages
...receive more than the hotter body. Clausiug has, subsequently, restated it thus : "It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature." mechanical effect from any portion of matters by cooling it below the temperature...
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Text-book on the Steam Engine

Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pages
...the second alternative, viz. : — SECOND LAW -OF THERMODYNAMICS. SECOND LAW. It is impossible for a self-acting machine unaided by any external agency to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature. THE USE OF HIGH-PRESSURE STEAM. 62. We are now in a position to form an adequate...
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Fuel and Water: with Special Chapters on Heat and Steam-boilers: A Manual ...

Franz Schwackhöfer - 1884 - 308 pages
...different forms, due to Clausius and Sir William Thomson respectively * : — (a) It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another body at a higher temperature. (&) It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive...
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Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, Volume 35

1886 - 542 pages
...by Thomson in his Math, and Phyo. Papers, paite 181, it reads : It a impoteible for a ielf-ai-tiiui machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature. 492 THERMODYNAMICS. taining the essential principles of the science, and, in...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 23

1888 - 932 pages
...to pass from warmer bodies to colder." Some years later he employed the axiom, "it u impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another ata higher temperature." W. Thomson, in 1851, employed the axiom, "it is impossible, by means of inanimate...
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Handbook for Mechanical Engineers

Henry Adams - 1891 - 338 pages
...to pass from that body into another at a lower temperature. — Clerk Maxwell. It is impossible for a self-acting machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature. — Clausius. It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency, to derive...
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