Heat can evidently be a cause of motion only by virtue of the changes of volume or of form which it produces in bodies. (Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot)

Heat can evidently be a cause of motion only by virtue of the changes of volume or of form which it produces in bodies.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

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