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[edit] History of thermodynamics
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[edit] Severely reduced timeline of thermodynamics
- 1808 - John Dalton defends caloric theory in A New System of Chemistry and describes how it combines with matter, especially gases; he proposes that the heat capacity of gases varies inversely with atomic weight
- 1813 - Peter Ewart supports the idea of the conservation of energy in his paper On the measure of moving force; the paper strongly influences Dalton and his pupil, James Joule
- 1822 - Joseph Fourier formally introduces the use of dimensions for physical quantities in his Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur
- 1824 - Sadi Carnot analyzes the efficiency of steam engines using caloric theory; he develops the notion of a reversible process and, in postulating that no such thing exists in nature, lays the foundation for the second law of thermodynamics
- 1834 - Émile Clapeyron popularises Carnot's work through a graphical and analytic formulation
- 1843 - James Joule experimentally finds the mechanical equivalent of heat
- 1847 - Hermann von Helmholtz publishes a definitive statement of the conservation of energy, the first law of thermodynamics
- 1848 - William Thomson extends the concept of absolute zero from gases to all substances
- 1849 - William John Macquorn Rankine calculates the correct relationship between saturated vapour pressure and temperature using his hypothesis of molecular vortices
- 1850 - Rankine uses his vortex theory to establish accurate relationships between the temperature, pressure, and density of gases, and expressions for the latent heat of evaporation of a liquid; he accurately predicts the surprising fact that the apparent specific heat of saturated steam will be negative.
- 1850 - Rudolf Clausius clarifies Carnot's statement of the Second Law; and establishes the importance of dQ/T, but does not yet name the quantity.
- 1852 - Joule and Thomson demonstrate that a rapidly expanding gas cools, later named the Joule-Thomson effect
- 1854 - Rankine introduces his thermodynamic function, later identified as entropy
- 1857 - Clausius gives a modern and compelling account of the kinetic theory of gases in his On the nature of motion called heat
- 1859 - James Clerk Maxwell discovers the distribution law of molecular velocities
- 1865 - Clausius introduces the modern macroscopic concept of entropy
- 1870 - Clausius proves the scalar virial theorem
- 1874 - Thomson formally states the second law of thermodynamics.
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