H. B. Reitlinger and the origins of the Efficiency at Maximum Power formula for Heat Engines
arXiv:1406.5853 · doi:10.1515/jnet-2014-0018
Abstract
Even if not so ancient, the history of the heat engine efficiency at maximum power expression have been yet turbulent. More than a decade after the publication of the seminal article by Curzon and Ahlborn in 1975, one's rediscovered two older works by Chambadal and Novikov, both dating from 1957. Then, some years ago, the name of Yvon arose from a textual reference to this famous relation in a conference article published in 1955. Thanks to an historical study of French written books not anymore published for a long time, and since never translated in other languages, we bring to light in this paper that this relation was actually firstly proposed by Henri B. Reitlinger in 1929.
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