Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Collected Works of Count RumfordCondition: NewAuthor: Count RumfordContributor: Sanborn C. Brown (Edited by)Format: HardbackISBN-10: 0674139542EAN: 9780674139541ISBN: 9780674139541Publisher: The Belknap PressGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Date: 01/01/1970Description: 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 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. His goals were practical, and his contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Rumford believed heat to be a form of energy, and worked to demolish the widely held material theory of heat.Between 1870 and 1875 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston published Rumford's “complete” Works, financing the project with part of the increase of a fund that Rumford himself had given to the Academy in 1796. This edition presented, in order of their first appearance, all the papers that the Academy committee was able to find. The Academy edition has long been out of print and practically unavailable.In this edition Sanborn Brown has rearranged the papers according to subject matter. Rumford's papers dealing with light and with armament are contained in this fourth volume. They include “Intensity of Light”; “Coloured Shadows”; “Harmony of Colors”; “Chemical Properties of Light”; “Management of Light”; “Source of Light in Combustion”; “Air from Water Exposed to Light”; “Description of a New Lamp”; “Experiments upon Gunpowder”; “Force of Fired Gunpowder”; and “Experiments with Cannon.”Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 939gRelease Year: 1970 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Collected Works of Count Rumford
Title: The Collected Works of Count Rumford
Contributor: Sanborn C. Brown (Edited by)
ISBN-10: 0674139542
EAN: 9780674139541
ISBN: 9780674139541
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Release Date: 01/01/1970
Release Year: 1970
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 514 Pages
Publication Name: Light and Armament
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: General, Physics / General
Publication Year: 1970
Item Height: 1.4 in
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Count Rumford
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover