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The Collected Works of Count Rumford: Volume IV: Light and Armament
Count Rumford
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Hardback. Num Pages: 514 pages. BIC Classification: PN. Dimension: 237 x 161. Weight in Grams: 954.
Like his countryman and contemporary Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. During fourteen years spent in Munich, he made important reforms in the city's public service and social welfare institutions; he also introduced improvements in the hospitals and workhouses in Ireland, England, and Italy. His goals were practical, and his contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Rumford believed heat to be a form of energy, and worked to demolish the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
Number of Pages
514
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674139541
SKU
V9780674139541
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