diagram. (The value of 
diagrams had been recognized by engineers, but had been a well-kept commercial secret.) A French civil engineer, mainly remembered by physicists for resurrecting the thermodynamic ideas of Sadi Carnot's and presenting them in a convincing mathematical form, supported by the use of a diagram. (The value of diagrams had been recognized by engineers, but had been a well-kept commercial secret.)
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