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Count Rumford   /kaʊnt rˈəmfərd/   Listen
Count Rumford

noun
1.
English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814).  Synonyms: Benjamin Thompson, Thompson.





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... Jefferson's invention and the various illuminating and heating contrivances of Count Rumford must have ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... to read it, and not be convinced. I find that "The Watchman" comes more easy to me, so that I shall begin about my Christian Lectures (meaning a publication of the course given in the preceding year). I will immediately order for you, unless you immediately countermand it, Count Rumford's Essays; in No. V of "The Watchman" you will see why. (That number contained a critique on the Essays.) I have enclosed Dr. Beddoes's late pamphlets; neither of them as yet published. The Doctor sent ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull


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