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A Brief History of Thermodynamics

Energy & First Law

Entropy

Statistical thermodynamics

Air thermometer
(Galileo 1597)
Alcohol thermometer
(Ferdinand 1660)
1700

Mercury thermometer
Fahrenheit scale (1714)
Celsius scale (1742)

1750

Heat intensity & heat


quantity (Black)
Caloric theory (x)
Graf von Rumford

1800

1850

Energy (Young 1807)


Dulong-Petit rule (1819)

Mercury pressure-meter
(Torricelli 1643)
Steam machine
(Papin 1681)

Steam engine
(Watt 1763)

Stirling engine
(1816)
Carnot engine
(1824)

First law: dQ=dU+dW


(Clausius 1850)
U: internal energy
(Kelvin 1851)

Carnot cycle
Second law
(Clausius 1850)
Entropy:

Gas expansion law


(Chareles 1787)
Atomic hypothesis
(Dalton 1803)

Chareles-Gay-Lussacs law
(1802)

Avogadro hypothesis (1811)

PV~RT (Clapeyron)

Brownian motion (1827)

Liquefying Cl2
(Faraday 1823)

PV diagram
(Clapeyron)

dS=dQ/T

(Clausius 1865)

1900

Boyles law (1662)


Mariottes law (1676)
Kinetic theory of gasesA brief view (Bernoulli 1738)

Mayer (since 1842)


1cal=4.18 J (Joule 1843)
Helmholtz (since 1847)
Absolute temperature
(Kelvin 1848)

Chemical Potential
(Gibbs 1878)

States & Third Law

Kinetic theory of gasesA simple model (Kronig 1856)


Kinetic theory of gasesMean free path (Clausis 1857)
Gas speed distribution
(Maxwell 1859)
Boltzmann factor (1872)
S~lnW (Boltzmann 1877)
Maxwell-Boltzmann
distribution (1871&1877)
Ensemble (Gibbs)
Weins law (1893)
Boltzmann constant (1900)
Planck constant (1900)
Discontinuity of matters
(Perrin 1908)
Bose-Einstein distribution
(1924)
Fermi-Dirac distribution
(1926)

van der Walls equation


(1873)
Critical point
Curies law

LH2 (Dewar 1898)


LHe (Onnes 1908)
Third law (Nernst 1912)
Superfluity
(Landau-Lifshitz)
Adiabatic demagnetization
(Debye-Giauque)
Diluted refrigerator
(London 1951)

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