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CROSS, CHARLES N. Heat Engines (Engineering Science Series)
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Nice bright copy with some corner edge wear, minor page ridge toning, few stains to dark blue/black cloth. 1930 Hard Cover. 607 pp. "A heat engine is a physical or theoretical device that converts thermal energy to mechanical output. The mechanical output is called work, and the thermal energy input is called heat. Heat engines typically run on a specific thermodynamic cycle. Heat engines can be open to the atmospheric air or sealed and closed off to the outside (open or closed cycle). In engineering and thermodynamics, a heat engine performs the conversion of heat energy to mechanical work by exploiting the temperature gradient between a hot "source" and a cold "sink". Heat is transferred from the source, through the "working body" of the engine, to the sink, and in this process some of the heat is converted into work by exploiting the properties of a working substance (usually a gas or liquid)." - Wikipedia.
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