Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: Historical New Hampshire/ by Sanborn C. Brown.
- Title:
- Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: Historical New Hampshire/ by Sanborn C. Brown.
- Author:
- Brown, Sanborn C.
- Call Number:
- 977.8 N5321h
- Publication Information:
- Concord, N.H. : New Hampshire Historical Society, 1963.
- Physical Description:
- p.18-35.
- Source:
- Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1963 Vol. 18 no.2 (October 1963) Historical New Hampshire
- Description:
- A biography of physicist and inventor Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford is presented. It examines his loyalism and his service as a colonel in the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. The author comments on Count Rumford's service as the Minister of War in Bavaria and his time in Paris, France and London, England. Count Rumford's efforts to improve coffeepots, stoves, and lamps are considered.
- Subjects:
- Physicists Biography. , Inventors.
- Organizations:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Periodicals History.
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