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Author: Jane Merrill Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 147662917X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
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.
Author: Jane Merrill Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 147662917X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
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.
Author: Sanborn Conner Brown Publisher: ISBN: 9781258841652 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: George Ingham Brown Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing ISBN: 9780750926744 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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FDR rated bount Rumford, along with his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the greatest mind America has yet produced.
Author: George Johnson Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 140003423X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most groundbreaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history. With the attention to detail of a historian and the storytelling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces and scientists were in awe of light, electricity, and the human body. Here, we see Galileo staring down gravity, Newton breaking apart light, and Pavlov studying his now famous dogs. This is science in its most creative, hands-on form, when ingenuity of the mind is the most useful tool in the lab and the rewards of a well-considered experiment are on exquisite display.
Author: Jane Merrill
Author: Jane Merrill
Author: Sanborn Conner Brown
Author: George Ingham Brown
Author: George Johnson
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Author: George Edward Ellis