Physics — History of Thermodynamics
From the steam engine to statistical entropy.
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title "History of thermodynamics"
axis 1760 1910
lane "Milestones"
event 1769 "Watt's improved steam engine"
event 1824 "Carnot: ideal heat engine"
event 1843 "Joule: mechanical equivalent of heat"
event 1850 "Clausius: first and second laws"
event 1865 "Entropy defined (Clausius)"
event 1877 "Boltzmann: statistical entropy"