"Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. " Topic
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Winston Smith | 24 Oct 2016 6:52 a.m. PST |
Bougainville was mentioned in the recent thread on French AWI armies. His "career" as a noted botanist was mentioned. The poster was surprised that none had heard of him. That jogged my memory of my physics and physical chemistry classes in college. Benjamin Thompson was an American Loyalist. He was Lt Col of the King's American Dragoons. Naturally, he did not stay in America after the war. He moved to Britain, becoming an inventor. Later he joined the court in Bavaria. Among his duties was the Artillery foundry. Being one of those heroic early scientists, he took meticulous measurements of the heat involved in boring out brass cannons. His studies, expanded upon by Carnot*, became the basis of our understanding of thermodynamics. *And for another fascinating physicist with a second more famous career, may I recommend you Google Lazar Carnot. |
Winston Smith | 24 Oct 2016 6:53 a.m. PST |
Yes. I know. It sounds like a Tango01 title. |
ColCampbell | 24 Oct 2016 7:23 a.m. PST |
But it is just as interesting as many of Tango's post. The tie in between Thompson and Carnot is also interesting since Thompson was a Loyalist and Carnot was a revolutionary. Jim |
Supercilius Maximus | 24 Oct 2016 3:53 p.m. PST |
Rumford can also take "credit" for designing the cheap (and rather nasty) Bavarian army uniforms of the 1790s. |
Peter Lowitt | 24 Oct 2016 4:37 p.m. PST |
He also designed a competitor to the Franklin stove, the Rumford. The story of America s two great inventors, Franklin and Thompson would make a great book |
42flanker | 24 Oct 2016 5:17 p.m. PST |
The Rumford kasket? Lovely bit of kit. Won't hear a word said against it. Beautiful plumage |
rmaker | 25 Oct 2016 8:01 a.m. PST |
The Rumford Roaster was not a stove, but a scientifically designed fireplace. It was carefully designed to reflect as much of the heat of the fire as possible out into the room. Still not as good as putting the fire itself in the middle of the room. And not as good for cooking as the traditional fireplace design. As for the einheitsuniform, both Rumford and Potemkin were well ahead of their time in clothing design. The fact that the Bavarian government cut corners on production was not the fault of the pattern. |
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