Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), (26 March 1753 - 21 August 1814), was an Anglo-American physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. Benjamin Thompson - Early life in America. Thompson was born in rural Woburn, Massachusetts, in America; his birthplace is preserved to this day as a museum. He was educated mainly at the village school, although he sometimes walked to Cambridg ...

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After 1799, he divided his time between France and England. With Sir Joseph Banks, he established the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 1799. The pair chose Sir Humphry Davy as the first lecturer. He endowed the Rumford medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and endowed a professorship at Harvard University. In 1804, he married Marie-Anne Lavoisier, the widow of the great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, his American wife having died since his emigration. They soon separated, but Thompson settled in Paris an ...

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Thompson was born in rural Woburn, Massachusetts, in America; his birthplace is preserved to this day as a museum. He was educated mainly at the village school, although he sometimes walked to Cambridge with the older Loammi Baldwin to attend lectures by Professor John Winthrop at Harvard College. At the age of 13 was apprenticed to John Appleton, a merchant of nearby Salem. Thompson excelled at his trade and, coming in contact with refined and well educated people for the first time, adopted many of their characteristics, including an inter ...

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An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction, (1798), Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society p.102 is a scientific paper by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford that provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat and began the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction - Background. Rumford was an opponent of the caloric theory of heat which hel ...

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Ben and Me was a two reel short subject produced by Disney and released theatrically on November 10, 1953. It was adapted from the children's book written by author/illustrator Robert Lawson and first published in 1939. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages. The short received an ...

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1753 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State leaders From Categories: births - deaths 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1753 - Events. January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January sh ...

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Baked Alaska (also known as glace au four, omelette á la norvégienne, Norwegian omelette and omelette surprise) is a dessert made of ice cream, straight from the freezer placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake, Christmas pudding or similar and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven just long enough to firm the meringue. The meringue is an effective insulator, and in the short cooking time needed, it prevents the heat getting through to the ice cream. Earlier versions use ...

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University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire (USNH). The main campus is in Durham, NH and the University has one college in Manchester, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester. The University has received many awards and recognitions for its academic acheivements. The Princeton Review and Forbes.com named UNH one of the nation's top 10 entrepreneurial campuses [1]. In 2004, UNH was the only public institution in New England to rank in the top 10 of Fulbright num ...

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1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade," because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the "Gay Nineties", under the then-current usage of the word "gay" which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no connotation of homosexuality as in current-day usage. 1890s - Events and trends. 18 ...

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Exceptionally well-known individuals whose surname is or was Thompson include: Benjamin Thompson – Anglo-American physicist, usually called "Count Rumford" Dave Thompson – British standup comedian David Thompson - All-star basketball player for N.C. State Univ. and the NBA Daley Thompson - Twice Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon Emma Thompson – British actress Francis Thompson – English poet George Thompson, several people Hunter S. Thompson – U ...

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In 1866, the university was first incorporated as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in Hanover, New Hampshire, in association with Dartmouth College. Durham resident Benjamin Thompson left his farm and assets to the state for the establishment an agricultural college. On January 30, 1890, Benjamin Thompson died and his will became public. On March 5, 1891, Gov. Hiram Americus Tuttle signed an act accepting the conditions of Thompson's will. On April 10, 1891, Gov. Tuttle signed a bill a ...

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In 1839 United States travel writers Benjamin Norman, followed the next year by John Lloyd Stephens, visited and published accounts of the ruins of Chichen Itza. Various other expeditions made further examinations of the ruins in the following decades. In 1901 the United States Consul to Yucatán, Edward H. Thompson bought Chichen Itza (as the ruins had no protected status then) and moved there with his Maya wife, and spent some 30 years doing amateur archeology there, including dredging the first artifacts out of the Sacred Cenote. I ...

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Greenwich Village includes the primary campus for New York University (NYU), The New School, and Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Cooper Union is located in neighboring East Village. The historic Washington Square Park is the center and heart of the neighborhood, but the Village has several other, smaller parks: Father Fagan, Minetta Triangle, Petrosino Square, Little Red Square, and Time Landscape. There are also city playgrounds: Desalvio, Minetta, Thompson Street, Mercer Street, and William Passannante Ballfi ...

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Situated beside Great Bay where the Oyster River meets the Piscataqua River, Durham was originally called "Oyster River Plantation." It was settled in 1635 as a part of Dover. During King William's War, on July 18, 1694 "Oyster River" was attacked in the Oyster River Massacre by French career soldier Sebastien de Villieu with about 250 Abenaki Indians under command of their sagamore, Bomazeen. In all, 45 inhabitants were killed and 49 taken captive, with half the dwellings, including 5 garrisons, burned to the ground. Crops were destroyed and livestock kille ...

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Restaurant and canteen kitchens found in hotels, hospitals, army barracks and similar establishments are generally (in developed countries) subject to public health laws. They are inspected periodically by public-health officials, and forced to close if they don't meet hygienic requirements mandated by law. Canteen kitchens (and castle kitchens) were often the places where new technology was used first. For instance, Benjamin Thompson's "energy saving stove", an early 19th century fully-closed iron stove using one fire to heat several pots, was designed for large kitchens; another thirty years pa ...

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List of publications in physics - An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1798). An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society: 102. Description: Observations of the generation of heat during the boring of cannons led Rumford to reject the caloric theory and to contend t ...

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Woburn is located at 42°29'4" North, 71°9'7" West (42.484545, -71.152060)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 33.4 km² (12.9 mi²). 32.8 km² (12.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.71% water. ...

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Rumford was an opponent of the caloric theory of heat which held that heat was a fluid that could be neither created nor detroyed. He had further developed the view that all gases and liquids were absolute non-conductors of heat. His views were out of step with the accepted science of the time and the latter theory had particularly been attacked by John Dalton[1] ...

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When the Bavarian electoral prince Maximilian III died childless in 1777, the province fell into the hands of the Palatinate archduke and elector Carl Theodor. After Theodor's attempt to trade this unwanted inheritance for the Netherlands failed, he dedicated himself to the transfiguration of Munich. Among other things, he opened an art gallery in the Residence's Hofgarten and made entry to both the garden and the gallery public. In February 1789, Theodor decreed that military gardens should be laid out in each garrison city. The gard ...

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