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The Collected Works of Count Rumford: Volume II: Practical Applications of Heat
Count Rumford
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Hardback. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: PN. Dimension: 235 x 130. Weight in Grams: 34240.
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 knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Volume I of this edition of Rumford's Works contained his papers on the nature of heat. This second ... Read more
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 knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Volume I of this edition of Rumford's Works contained his papers on the nature of heat. This second ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674139527
SKU
V9780674139527
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99-1
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