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So you think you know Manitoba?
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face=+Bold; The province gets its own encyclopediaface=-Bold;
The Encyclopedia of Manitoba is to make its debut Monday.
The 814-page hardcover volume, three years in the making, contains 2,000 entries
written by hundreds of expert Manitobans. Great Plains Publications, the encyclopedia's publisher,
calls it the most ambitious publishing project in the province's history.
Here is a sampling of its content.
BALSILLIE, Gladys Eva "Gladdie," - entrepreneur, burlesque agent (b March 27, 1919, RM of Franklin, MB; d Jan 9, 1987, Winnipeg) was known as the "Queen of the Strippers," reigning over ...
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The Many and the Few
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; ...breathed at CNAM. One name is Sadi Carnot. Without his work there would...today. Early in the 19th century, Sadi Carnot was a young engineer, not unlike...of humanity all over the globe. Sadi Carnot came to CNAM to study the machines...
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The many and the few: in a parade of machines, a young engineer saw the principle that everything flows one way, from high to low.
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME
; ...breathed at CNAM. One name is Sadi Carnot. Without his work there would...today. Early in the 19th century, Sadi Carnot was a young engineer, not unlike...of humanity all over the globe. Sadi Carnot came to CNAM to study the machines...
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Tracing the Second Law
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; ...older than Joules work and is due to Sadi Carnot. A graduate of the famous cole Polytechnique...By combining these two ideas, Carnot was able to analyze a number of cycles...nature of the thermodynamic medium. Carnot published his results in a book...
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Tracing the Second Law: modern thermodynamics owes a debt to the contributions of a line of researchers extending back more than a century.
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering-CIME
; ...than Joule's work and is due to Sadi Carnot. A graduate of the famous Ecole...By combining these two ideas, Carnot was able to analyze a number of cycles...nature of the thermodynamic medium. Carnot published his results in a book...
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STIRLING-TECHNOLOGY ENGINES SHOOTING FOR DG MARKET PENETRATION.
Magazine article from: Power Engineering
; ...can be devised that is more efficient than a Carnot cycle operating between the same temperature limits. In the 175-plus years since Sadi Carnot first described the externally reversible Carnot cycle, numerous scientists and engineers...
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Rudolf Diesel--happy 150th birthday: despite his turbulent personal life and his mysterious end, Diesel's engine remains the workhorse of the world.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
Magazine article from: Diesel Progress North American Edition
; ...striving for the thermal efficiencies Sadi Carnot showed in his classic treatise of...air temperatures dictated by his Carnot efficiency obsession. That this...The hope for an uncooled engine, Carnot's enticement, departed first...
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Science in the Eye of the Beholder, 1789-1820*
Magazine article from: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
; ...his disciples, their opponents, Joseph Fourier, and Sadi Carnot, were those pertaining to optics, electricity and magnetism...give a mathematical account of the propagation of heat. Sadi Carnot's heat cycle was the starting point of thermodynamics...
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Chang, Hasook. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...operationalism. The final narrative chapter outlines Sadi Carnot's description of the working of a perfect heat engine...Thomson looked at the first, isothermal stroke of a Carnot engine. His real world system was the production of steam...
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Packaging Sunlight
Magazine article from: Mechanical Engineering
; ...writings of two prominent scientists of the 19th century, Sadi Carnot and Josiah W. Gibbs. They created the discipline of...of such an energy conversion process is limited by the Carnot efficiency of an equivalent heat engine. With the suns...
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Steady-state, steady-flow: brokers and buyers may have differing perceptions of good customer service, but a lesson in physics proves why it might balance out.(BROKERS: People, Ideas and Trends shaping the Brokerage Community)
Magazine article from: Risk & Insurance
; ...the property of entropy developed by French physicist Sadi Carnot and German physicist and mathematician Rudolf Clausius...brokerage executives we talked to might not have the names of Carnot and Clausius perched on the tips of their tongues, but...
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