Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume 1: Nature of Heat

Rumford, Count; Benjamin Thompson

ISBN 10: 0674139518 / ISBN 13: 9780674139510

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1968

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507 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket not price clipped. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume 1: Nature of Heat
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674139518
• ISBN 13: 9780674139510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

An American of wide-ranging interests and overflowing energy, Benjamin Thompson applied his scientific and technical knowledge to the improvement of public service and welfare institutions in Bavaria (a service for which he was made Count Rumford), Ireland, England, and Italy. In the process, he made important discoveries in physics. In this new edition of Rumford's Works, Sanborn Brown has arranged his writings according to subject matter: this first volume contains his papers on the nature of heat, and includes one paper which has never before been published in English.

The volume begins with Rumford's paper on the production of heat by friction, and continues with descriptions of the experiments by which he showed that heat has no weight, and his essays on the propagation of heat in solids and fluids. Subsequent volumes contain papers on practical applications of heat, devices and techniques (including studies of fireplaces and chimneys), armament, light and color, and on such public establishments and organizations as poorhouses, the army of Bavaria, and the Royal Institution in London.