History of Thermodynamics

Background

Timeline

The Pioneers

Nicholas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796 - 1832) Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822 - 1888) Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903) Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) James Prescott Joule (1818 - 1889) James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) Julius Robert Mayer (1814 - 1878)