the design of practical engines. Rudolf Diesel, for example, used Carnot's theories to design the diesel engine, in which the temperature of the hot reservoir is much higher than that of a steam engine, resulting in an engine which is more efficient. Works Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (1824) See also History of the internal combustion engine References Bibliography (full text of 1897 ed.) () External links Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1890), English translation by R. H. Thurston (at Internet Archive) Sadi Carnot and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, J. Srinivasan, Resonance, November 2001, 42 (PDF file) Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824), analysed on BibNum (click "À télécharger" for English analysis) 1796 births 1832 deaths 19th-century French mathematicians 19th-century French physicists French deists École Polytechnique alumni French military engineers Thermodynamicists Deaths from cholera Infectious disease deaths in France Engineers from Paris Fluid dynamicists Carnot family Conservatoire national des arts et métiers alumni