Count Rumford was born in North Woburn, Mass., but moved to England during the Revolution. While in various positions in Europe, he did extensive research on heat, steam, feeding the poor and other subjects. His essays were combined into books in 1876, The complete works of Count Rumford which are on Google Books, and again in 1960, The Collected Works of Count Rumford by Sanborn Brown. His fireplace plans were smaller size, provided more heat and less smoke. Some of his Rumford Roasters remain. Thus far, I have located about a dozen, so if you have a specific question, email me.
Count Rumford [Benjamin Thompson 1753-1814]
Rumford: Third Essay of food and paricularly of feeding the poor.
The Contribution of Count Rumford to Domestic Life in Jane Austen’s Time
Count Rumford
Count Rumford, Sanborn Brown, and the Rumford Mosaic [at Dartmouth]
Birth of the Restaurant
Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Man Huntington [Long Island] loved to Hate
Royal Institution of Great Britain. holdings
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Count Rumford: The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius, book review
Articles and pictures
Foundling Hospital Kitchen
28 London Soup Shop
30 Birmingham Soup Kitchen
The Rumford Kitchen Exhibit at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Bavarian kitchen
Rumfordised fireplace [Rumford.com]
Roaster [picture - out of wall]
Roaster
Roaster
Soup kitchens, range, double boiler, drip coffee pot
Drip coffee pot
Omellete surprise [Baked Alaska]
Museums
MA Chelmsford Historical Society Barrett-Byam Homestead Chelmsford
MA Rumford Birthplace Nt. Landmark Woburn
NH Rundlet-May House Portsmouth
NH Nestlenook Farm Resort and Victorian Village Jackson
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