The Collected Works of Count Rumford

by Sanborn C. Brown, Count Rumford, Benjamin Thompson

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 the 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. Rumford's contributions to our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674139526
• ISBN13: 9780674139527
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"