Download or read book Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford written by Sanborn Conner Brown and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original version of biography of Thompson, rejected by publisher as too lengthy. Subsequently revised (later ms. version in Rumford 001755) and published in Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1979.
Download or read book Sex and the Scientist written by Jane Merrill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He was knighted by King George III and became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor. Thompson's popularity with women eclipsed his achievements, though. He was married twice and had affairs with many other prominent women, including the wife of Boston printer Isaiah Thomas and that of a doctor who would crew the first balloon to cross the English Channel. He even fathered a child by the court mistress of the Prince Elector and had affairs with several other German noblewomen. Drawing on Thompson's correspondence and diaries, this book examines his friendships and romantic relationships.
Download or read book The Life of Count Rumford written by William S. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Benjamin Thompson Count of Rumford written by James Renwick and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientist Soldier Statesman Spy written by George Ingham Brown and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FDR rated bount Rumford, along with his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the greatest mind America has yet produced.
Download or read book An American in Europe written by Egon Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of Count Rumford Zebulon Montgomery Pike and Samuel Gorton written by Henry Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Count of Concord written by Nicholas Delbanco and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of the life of eighteenth-century American physicist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, as seen by his last surviving relative.
Download or read book The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace written by Vrest Orton and published by Alan C Hood. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to alter unsatisfactory fireplaces & to build new ones in the 18th century fashion"--Cover.
Download or read book Life of Count Rumford written by L. Waldo Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Count Rumford written by William S. Barnes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Count Rumford: A Lecture Given in the Lyceum Course of 1872-3, at Woburn, Mass., January 21st, 1873 Deeply hurt at this rebuff, Thompson returned to Woburn where another attempt was made to arrest him, which was ingeniously foiled however by Mr. Baldwin, who seeing the company halt before the dwelling of Thompson's mother, just opposite his own residence, suspected their object and enticed them to his barn, where be supplied them with liquor until they forgot their errand and departed, leaving Thomp son unmolested. It is not surprising that in deep bitterness of spirit, Thompson now wrote to his father-in-law My enemies are indefatigable in their endeavors to distress me, and I find to my sorrow, that they are but too successful. I have been driven from the camp by the clamors of the New Hampshire people, and am again threatened in this place. But I hope soon to be out of the reach of my cruel persecutors, for I am determined to seek for that peace and protection in for eign lands, and among strangers, which is denied me in my native country. I cannot any longer bear the insults that are daily offered me I have done nothing that can merit this cruel usage. I have done nothing with any design to injure my countrymen, and cannot any longer bear to be treated in this barbarous manner by them. He then com mends his family to the kind care of Mr. Walker, express ing keen distress at the thought of separating from them, and the hope that he may soon be able to return to his country and family in peace and safety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book White Knight Red Heat written by John Gribbin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that “Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produced,” and indeed, Rumford was a peer of theirs, and arguably contributed more to the scientific canon, and yet is nowhere near as well known. Born in the British Americas as Benjamin Thompson, he died a count and a knight, and lived a fascinating, eventful life in between, founding the Royal Institution in London, inventing a better chimney (still in widespread use) for open fires, finding time along the way to invent the coffee percolator and the enclosed oven, and most importantly pioneering our modern understanding of heat. White Knight, Red Heat tells the story of this notable figure in book form for the first time in over twenty years. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford, was an American-born British physicist, government administrator, and a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. His investigations of heat overturned the theory that heat is a liquid form of matter and established the beginnings of the modern theory that heat is a form of motion. Loyal to the British crown, he served as a spy after the outbreak of the American Revolution, but in 1776 he was forced to flee to London, leaving his wife and daughter behind. Knighted by King George III in 1784, Thompson introduced numerous social reforms and brought James Watt’s steam engine into common use... He was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1791. Interest in gunpowder and weaponry stimulated his physical investigations, and in 1798 he began his studies of heat and friction, making one of the earliest measurements of the equivalence of heat and mechanical energy.
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Download or read book Men of Physics Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford written by Sanborn C. Brown and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men of Physics: Benjamin Thompson—Count Rumford: Count Rumford on the Nature of Heat presents the life and works of Count Rumford, an American-born British physicist and inventor. This book is divided in two parts. The first part gives a biographical sketch of Count Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, who was born on March 23, 1753 and died in 1814. This part also discusses the contemporary caloric theory and the reason why Rumford disbelieved the theory. The second part presents his technical works, discoveries, and contributions in the field of physics. Some of which are his demonstration of the existence of convection currents; heat by friction; thermal expansion; and other studies concerning heat. This text will be of interest for physicists and other professionals in the related fields.
Download or read book An American in Europe written by Egon Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mill Town written by Kerri Arsenault and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
