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- Alexis_Thérèse_Petit comment "Alexis Thérèse Petit (2 October 1791, Vesoul, Haute-Saône – 21 June 1820 in Paris) was a French physicist.Petit is known for his work on the efficiencies of air- and steam-engines, published in 1818 (\"Mémoire sur l’emploi du principe des forces vives dans le calcul des machines\"). His well-known discussions with the French physicist Sadi Carnot, founder of thermodynamics, may have stimulated Carnot in his reflexions on heat engines and thermodynamic efficiency.".