THIS biography supplies a want that has been sorely felt by all who have desired to obtain a reliable account of Count Rumford's eventful life. It is, I think, impossible to name any equally eminent ...

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 ...

Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, count Rumford, with notices of his daughter. By George E. Ellis. Pub. in connection with an edition of Rumford's complete works, by the American Academy of Arts and ...

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.

Finally, in 1791, Sir Benjamin Thompson was made a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, with the order of the White Eagle. Sir Benjamin selected as his title the original name of the New England village, ...

August 25, 1814. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford, died.—The founder of the Royal Institution and of the Rumford medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Sciences, Rumford ...

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 ...