Count Rumford : scientist, soldier, statesman, spy : the extraordinary life of a scientific genius

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Count Rumford : scientist, soldier, statesman, spy : the extraordinary life of a scientific genius

G.I. Brown ; foreword by Susan Greenfield

Sutton Pub., 1999

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Bibliography: p. 173-175

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A scientific biography of Count Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution, who arrived in England in 1776, and invented methods for improved heating, lighting and cooking, through his discovery of how heat was made.

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