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Count Rumford

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English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814). Synonyms: Benjamin Thompson, Thompson.

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... problem is capable of being successfully solved, if wisely handled, has been proved by the Bavarian experiment of Count Rumford quoted by General Booth in an appendix to his book. True that in that case the Government lent their authority, their influence and the public purse to the carrying out of the Count's plan ...

— Darkest India - A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" • Commissioner Booth-Tucker

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... Jefferson's invention and the various illuminating and heating contrivances of Count Rumford must have ...

— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

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... According to Count Rumford, the Bavarian wood-chopper, one of the most hardy and hard-working men in the world, receives for his weekly rations one large loaf of rye bread and a small quantity of roasted meal. Of the meal he makes an infusion, to which he adds a little salt, and with the mixture, ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

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... to read it, and not be convinced. I find that "The Watchman" comes more easy to me, so that I shall begin about my Christian Lectures (meaning a publication of the course given in the preceding year). I will immediately order for you, unless you immediately countermand it, Count Rumford's Essays; in No. V of "The Watchman" you will see why. (That number contained a critique on the Essays.) I have enclosed Dr. Beddoes's late pamphlets; neither of them as yet published. The Doctor sent ...

— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull

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