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Collected works of Count Rumford. Edited by Sanborn C. Brown.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-148676

Description

5 v. illus. 25 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Science.
Technology.

Originator

Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814.
Brown, Sanborn Conner, 1913- ed.

Contents

v. 1. The nature of heat.--v. 2. Practical applications of heat.--v. 3. Devices and techniques.--v. 4. Light and armament.--v. 5. Public institutions.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Description

5 v. illus. 25 cm.

Notes

Those articles originally written in a foreign language have been translated into English.
Gift of Claire Dempsey, 1992.

ISBN

0674139534 (v. 3) varies

Call Number

Stacks Q113.R893 v.3

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