IN 1871, I prepared for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a Memoir of Count Rumford, to accompany an edition of his writings. During the twenty years which have elapsed since its publication ...

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by the grace of Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, was an arrogant, auburn-haired New England dandy with a taste for rich widows and a talent for cultivating royalty.

"Biographical sketches of Count Rumford": v. 4, p. 816-820. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...

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[Full entry reads: "Portrait of Count Rumford, copied from a Picture now in England, painted by Kellenhofer of Munich in 1792. Presented by the Count to his Mother, in 1799."] Catalogue of the ...

THE name of Count Rumford was a very familiar one in the ears of our fathers and grandfathers. For many years he was a very famous man on both sides of the Atlantic, and his fame was an honest one, of ...