The Collected Works Of Count Rumford Volume I The Nature Of Heat

Author : Count Rumford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674139510
Total Pages : 530 pages
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Download or read book The Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume I: the Nature of Heat written by Count Rumford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American of wide-ranging interests and overflowing energy, Benjamin Thompson applied his scientific and technical knowledge to the improvement of public service and welfare institutions in Bavaria (a service for which he was made Count Rumford), Ireland, England, and Italy. In the process, he made important discoveries in physics. In this new edition of Rumford's Works, Sanborn Brown has arranged his writings according to subject matter: this first volume contains his papers on the nature of heat, and includes one paper which has never before been published in English. The volume begins with Rumford's paper on the production of heat by friction, and continues with descriptions of the experiments by which he showed that heat has no weight, and his essays on the propagation of heat in solids and fluids. Subsequent volumes contain papers on practical applications of heat, devices and techniques (including studies of fireplaces and chimneys), armament, light and color, and on such public establishments and organizations as poorhouses, the army of Bavaria, and the Royal Institution in London.

Author : Count Rumford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674139527
Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book The Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume II: Practical Applications of Heat written by Count Rumford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his countryman and contemporary Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. During the fourteen years spent in Munich, he made important reforms in the city's public service and social welfare institutions; he also introduced improvements in the hospitals and workhouses in Ireland, England, and Italy. Rumford's contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Volume I of this edition of Rumford's Works contained his papers on the nature of heat. This second volume presents Rumford's work on the practical applications of heat. Of particular interest are his papers on the propagation of heat in liquids, chimney fire-places, supplementary observations on chimney fire-places, and the management of fire and the economy of fuel. Subsequent volumes contain papers on devices and techniques, light and armament, and public institutions.

Author : Benjamin Graf von Rumford
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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Collected Works of Count Rumford: The nature of heat written by Benjamin Graf von Rumford and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Graf von Rumford
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674139534
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book Collected Works of Count Rumford: Devices and techniques written by Benjamin Graf von Rumford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. His goals were practical and his contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat proved extremely valuable. Between 1870 and 1875, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston published all of Rumford's papers that the Academy committee was able to find. The Academy edition, however, has long been out of print and practically unavailable. Here Sanborn Brown has rearranged the papers according to subject matter. Volume I contains Rumford's papers on the nature of heat; the second covers its practical applications. This third volume contains his papers on devices and techniques, including "Use of Steam for Transporting Heat"; "Means of Heating the Hall of the (French) Institute"; "New Boiler for Saving Fuel"; "Steam Heat for Making Soap"; "Fires in Closed Fire-Places"; "Kitchen Fire-Places"; "Salubrity of Warm Rooms"; "Salubrity of Warm Bathing"; "The Strength of Silk"; "Quantities of Absorbed Moisture"; "Advantage of Wheels with Broad Felloes"; and "Proposals for Building a Frigate."

Author : Benjamin Thompson Rumford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book Benjamin Thompson-Cound Rumford written by Benjamin Thompson Rumford and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Thompson Rumford (Count.)
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674139541
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book Collected Works of Count Rumford written by Benjamin Thompson Rumford (Count.) and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like his countryman and contemporary Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. During fourteen years spent in Munich, he made important reforms in the city's public service and social welfare institutions; he also introduced improvements in the hospitals and workhouses in Ireland, England, and Italy. His goals were practical, and his contributions to our knowledge of the nature of heat were as valuable as Franklin's to our knowledge of electricity. Rumford believed heat to be a form of energy, and worked to demolish the widely held material theory of heat. Between 1870 and 1875 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston published Rumford's "complete" Works, financing the project with part of the increase of a fund that Rumford himself had given to the Academy in 1796. This edition presented, in order of their first appearance, all the papers that the Academy committee was able to find. The Academy edition has long been out of print and practically unavailable. In this edition Sanborn Brown has rearranged the papers according to subject matter. Rumford's papers dealing with light and with armament are contained in this fourth volume. They include "Intensity of Light"; "Coloured Shadows"; "Harmony of Colors"; "Chemical Properties of Light"; "Management of Light"; "Source of Light in Combustion"; "Air from Water Exposed to Light"; "Description of a New Lamp"; "Experiments upon Gunpowder"; "Force of Fired Gunpowder"; and "Experiments with Cannon."

Author : Benjamin Graf von Rumford
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Total Pages : 920 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Works of Count Rumford written by Benjamin Graf von Rumford and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rumford
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Total Pages : 898 pages
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Author : I.F. Goldstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489903844
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book The Experience of Science written by I.F. Goldstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific Process, was written to give some conception of what the scientific approach is like, how to recognize it, how to distinguish it from other approaches to understanding the world, and to give some feeling for the intellectual excitement and aesthetic satisfactions of science. These goals represented our concept of the term "scientific literacy." Though the book was written for the general reader, to our surprise and gratification it was also used as a text in about forty colleges, and some high schools, for courses in science for the non-scientist, in methodology of science for social and behavioral sciences, and in the philosophy of science. As a result we were encouraged to write a textbook with essentially the same purpose and basic approach, but at a level appropriate to college students. We have drawn up problems for those chapters that would benefit from them, described laboratory experiments that illustrate important points discussed in the text, and made suggestions for additional readings, term papers, and other projects. Throughout the book we have introduced a number of chapters and appendices that provide examples of the uses of quantitative thinking in the sciences: logic, math ematics, probability, statistics, and graphical representation.

Author : Terrence W. Deacon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393049914
Total Pages : 625 pages
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Download or read book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter written by Terrence W. Deacon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.