Talk:Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

Attribution
The text of part of this article was taken from the public domain resource A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908)

Illustration
The picture at the bottom of the page, of an older-looking man, seems unlikely to be a picture of the Sadi Carnot discussed in this article, since that man died at the age of 36. Is it possibly a picture of one of his relatives with a similar name? It would be an easy mistake to make.
 * In fact this is a picture of his father, Lazare Carnot. We had a discussion about it in the french article which is about to be classified as a good article. --82.127.88.191 17:47, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * According to the source of this image, it really is Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot and not his father. The caption should probably be modified, unless someone can provide a reliable source claiming it's Lazare. The image is still named, described and categorized as Sadi Carnot on Commons. 129.206.34.16 (talk) 13:37, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Table removal
Removed the table and replaced with a.

--Rednblu 21:47, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Strange sentence
"Based on purely technical concerns, such as improving the performance of the steam engine, Sadi Carnot's intellect laid the groundwork for modern science technological designs, such as the automobile or jet engine."

I do not understand this sentence. Why is improving the performance of the steam engine specifically a technical concern? Did Carnot really improve the steam engine, or did he explain the actual efficiency of the steam engine? I think he primarily was a physicist, not an engineer (like James Watt). Finally, the relationship with making "technological designs" is totally unclear to me. Rbakels (talk) 23:35, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Motivation
According to history professor Simon Schaffer and physics professor Jim Al-Khalili, Sadi was motivated to improve steam engines by the recent French military defeats, and the lack of French industrial prowess compared to British and Austrian industry. Exploring Energy and the Laws that Govern Our Existence TGCP (talk) 11:13, 29 July 2023 (UTC)