In famous publications, “On an Absolute Thermometric Scale founded on Carnot’s Theory of the Motive Power of Heat, and Calculated from Regnault’s Observations” is an 1848 article by English physicist William Thomson that introduced the absolute temperature scale a thermodynamic temperature scale starting at absolute zero degrees of temperature. [1] In the articles, Thomson derived the SI Kelvin temperature scale based on French physicist Sadi Carnot’s 1824 theory that the efficiency of any heat engine, i.e. the working ability any physical body whatsoever, depends only on the difference between the hot and cold reservoirs acting on the working body, in corroboration with 1847 experimental measurements of French chemist-physicist Henri Regnault. [2]
References
1. Thomson, William. (1848). “On an Absolute Thermometric Scale Founded on Carnot’s Theory of the Motive Power of Heat” (pgs. 100-06), Cambridge Philosophical Society Proceedings for June 5; and Phil. Mag., Oct. 1848.
2. (a) Carnot, Sadi. (1824). “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop that Power.” Paris: Chez Bachelier, Libraire, Quai Des Augustins, No. 55.
(b) Regnault, Henri V. (1847). ““Experimental Relations … to determine the Main Laws and Numerical Data Entering into the Calculations of Steam Machines” (“Relations des experiences … pour determiner les principales lois et les donnees numeriques qui entrent dand le calcul des machines a vapeur.”), Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences de l’Institute de France, Paris, Vol. 21, (pgs. 1-748).
External links
● Barus, Carl, Randall, Wyatt W., and Ames, Joseph S. (1898). Laws of Gases: The Free Expansion of Gases: Memoirs by Gay-Lussac, Joule, and Thomson (edited by Joseph S. Ames) (section IV: On an Absolute Thermometric Scale, pgs. 73-). Harper & Brothers Publishers.
● On an Absolute Thermometric Scale – Zapatopi.net.
