AMONTONS, (GUILLAUME). - THE INVENTION OF THE THERMIC MOTOR.

Moyen de substituer Commodement L'Action du Feu, a la Force des Hommes et des Chevaux pour mouvoir les Machines.

(Paris, Jean Boudot, 1702). 4to. Without wrappers. Extracted from "Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences. Année 1699". Pp. 112-126 and 1 engraved plate. (showing the "Moulin a Feu" Textillustrations.

First apperance of this classic paper in which Amontons decribes his invention of a thermic motor.

"As early as 1699 Amontons proposed a thermic motor: a machine using hot air and external combustion with direct rotation. The experiments carried on in connection with this machine led him to note that ordinary air going from the temperature of ice to that of boiling water increases in volume by about one third."(DSB I, p. 139).

Together with L'HOPITAL "Methode Facil pour trouver un Solide Rond qui étant mû dans un Fluide en repos paralellement..." 1699/1702. Pp. 107-112

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