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The Complete Works Of Count Rumford - Softcover

Benjamin Graf Von Rumford

 
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Synopsis

The Complete Works Of Count Rumford by Benjamin Graf Von Rumford. The work presents a comprehensive collection of Rumford's essays on heat, fire management, and kitchen economy, detailing experiments, designs for closed fire-places, steam cooking, roasters, and portable furnaces. It emphasizes reducing fuel waste, improving household energy efficiency, and disseminating practical knowledge for public improvement. The text documents Rumford's methods, apparatus, and plates, as well as his advocacy for the betterment of the poor through affordable kitchen technologies. The treatise blends experimental physics with engineering practice, offering methodological discussions and extensive apparatus descriptions, plates and experiments conducted in Munich and London, including the House of Industry at Munich, Military Academy, and public kitchens.

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