History of discovery of three basic laws of thermodynamics and their formulations are presented.
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Published in Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 807–813, July–August, 2017.
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Kakaç, S. Development of the Science of Thermodynamics. J Eng Phys Thermophy 90, 763–769 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-017-1624-8
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