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It was not the dynamical theory of heat which came before the steam-engine--it followed it.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “It was not the dynamical theory of heat which came before the steam-engine--it followed it.”
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Kropotkin points out that the steam engine was developed before the theory of heat dynamics was established.
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