Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814)
Auteur de Collected works of Count Rumford, Volume 1 : The nature of heat
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Œuvres de Benjamin Thompson
Essays, political, economical, and philosophical 5 exemplaires
Monasteries and society in medieval Britain : proceedings of the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium (1999) 5 exemplaires
Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume IV : Light and Armament (The Collected Works of Count Rumford) (1970) 2 exemplaires
The Complete Works of Count Rumford Vol. 2 [...] 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works of Count Rumford Vol. 4 [...] 1 exemplaire
Count Rumford’s experimental essays, political, economical, and philososphical. Essay IV. Of chimney fire-places,… 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works of Count Rumford Vol. 1 [...] 1 exemplaire
Collected works of Count Rumford, vol. 1, 2, & 3 1 exemplaire
Rumford Fireplaces and How they are Made 1 exemplaire
An essay on chimney fire-places with proposals for improving them, to save fuel; ... Illustrated with engravings 1 exemplaire
The Steam Doctor's Defence: Exhibiting the Superiority of the Thomsonian System of Medicine, in Relieving and Curing… (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works of Count Rumford Vol. 3 [...] 1 exemplaire
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Government and Political Life in England and France, c.1300-c.1500 (2015) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Count Rumford
Reichsgraf von Rumford - Date de naissance
- 1753-03-26
- Date de décès
- 1814-08-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Woburn, Massachusetts, British North America
- Lieu du décès
- Paris, France
- Lieux de résidence
- Woburn, Massachusetts
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
London, England, UK
Munich, Bavaria
Paris, France - Professions
- physicist
inventor - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary Member)
Royal Institution of Great Britain (co-founder)
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Foreign Member)
Royal Society (Fellow)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 23
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 50
- Popularité
- #316,248
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 14
- Langues
- 1
Rumford was born in pre-revolutionary America but left when he found himself on the wrong side in the revolution. He ended up in Munich as an advisor to the Bavarian elector and made major contributions to the Bavarian military, to the Munich cityscape through his development of the English Garden, to technology in his work on stoves and chimneys, to the introduction of potatoes into Bavarian cuisine, and to innovative approaches for aiding the poor.
The first essay in the book talks in detail about his strategy for creating a poorhouse in Munich and offers insight into social conditions at the end of the 18th century. The other essays tend to be much less interesting unless, of course, you are very interested in how chimneys are constructed.
the book can be recommended to people interested in the history of Munich as well as those interested in the social history of Europe. It could also be of interest to economic historians due to its detailed discussion of prices for food and fuel.… (plus d'informations)