Letter Published: 01 October 1925 Carnot's Cycle and Efficiency of Heat Engines ALFRED W. PORTER Nature 116, 497 (1925) Cite this article ...

Although the Carnot cycle itself is impossible to realize, the `` Stirling engine '' devised by Robert Stirling, a pastor in Scotland in 1816, is known to be quite close to this Carnot cycle.

Letter Published: 24 October 1925 Carnot's Cycle and the Efficiency of Heat Engines J. A. V. BUTLER Nature 116, 607–608 (1925) Cite this article ...