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.

THE American Academy of Arts and Sciences is doing good service and teaching the Old World a sound practical lesson by undertaking the publication of such a work as this. The question of what form ...

[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 ...

A HUNDRED and fifty years ago, on March 7, 1799, a meeting was held at the house of Sir Joseph Banks in Soho Square, London, to consider proposals for founding a new scientific institution in London.

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 ...

Count Rumford Born Benjamin Thompson in Woburn, Mass., he was both a brilliant investigator and an unscrupulous careerist. He demonstrated that heat is not a substance called "caloric" but is a mode ...

This media is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's ...

If you enjoyed this article, I’d like to ask for your support. Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in ...