Sadi Carnot was a child of the Industrial Revolution. Steam power was widely used in manufacturing and mining by his birth in 1796, and the first steamboat and first steam railroad locomotive were invented while he was still a child. Steam technology was transforming society, and Europe was at the center of the action — a Silicon Valley for steam.
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