August 25, 1814. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford, died.—The founder of the Royal Institution and of the Rumford medals of the Royal Society and the American Academy of Sciences, Rumford ...

Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, count Rumford, with notices of his daughter. By George E. Ellis. Pub. in connection with an edition of Rumford's complete works, by the American Academy of Arts and ...

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 ...

BENJAMIN THOMPSON, knighted by George III., and created Count von Rumford by the Elector Palatine of Bavaria as a reward for his services, was born at North Woburn, Massachusetts, on March 26,1753, ...