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A Carnot heat engine is a hypothetical engine that operates on the reversible Carnot cycle.

The basic model for this engine was developed by Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot in 1824.

The Carnot engine model was graphically expanded upon by Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron in 1834 and mathematically elaborated upon by Rudolf Clausius in 1857 and 66 from which the concept of entropy emerged.