Father of Thermodynamics Sadi Carnot

Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, the French engineer and physicist, was bom in Paris in 1796. His father, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, was in the French military service. Sadi Camot is considered as the founder of modem thermodynamics. Famous for his invaluable contributions to science and thermodynamics, Sadi Camot was honored with the title Father of Thermodynamics. Some of his noteworthy contributions to thermodynamics are the concepts of Camot heat engine, Camot cycle, Carnot s theorem, Camot efficiency, and reversible cycle. 

Sadi Carnot established the fact that the maximum efficiency of a heat engine is governed by the difference of temperature of steam entering from the boiler and 

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This was the picture - scientific, technological, and social - in the early part of the 19th century that the two fathers of Thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and James Prescott Joule, entered in. A new field of science and technology was established in about half a century, following the major developments presented in Table 4.4. (The christening was done by Lord Kelvin in 1849). 

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