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 ...

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 ...

Woburn’s Benjamin Thompson was a world-renowned statesman and scientist. But his name may be unfamiliar to most people. Thompson is more famously known as Count Rumford. More than 60 years after ...

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.

Rumford fireplaces have always scared me. Invented in 1796 by Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, they are very tall and very shallow. They just look like more smoke is going to come into the ...

Trips and trysts: The Count and the senorita of Bavaria He was known as the Yankee who could do everything – which he did. She was a ‘Spanish’ flamenco dancer who stole the heart of a king. In this ...

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 ...

The Munich Museum, Germany, recently sent its representative to Woburn to view and obtain information for an upcoming special exhibit on Count Rumford. Beginning Oct. 10, this Munich exhibit will run ...