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...easy to be jocose in dealing with our ancestors. But the biographer who is persistently jocose is more likely to cheapen himself than entertain his readers. "Count Rumford of Massachusetts" is the life of a brilliant and eccentric cosmopolitan figure in eighteenth century politics, science, and society. Yet Mr. Thompson seems far more bent in his book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused...
Among the funds for research awarded by the body is the Rumford Premium, given for the most "important discovery for useful improvement on Heat, or on Light," from the $5,000 given by Count Rumford...
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, the Yankee farmer who became a knight of the Holy Roman Empire is revealed in a short biography by John H. G. Pell '26, famous historian and author of "Ethan Allen...
Underwater communication between ships, detection and location of approaching vessels, and echo-sounding of the ocean depths are expected to be some of the useful results which will be facilitated by the experiments now being carries on at the Crufts High Tension Laboratory by George W. Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics and Director of the Laboratory. Assisted by Dr. Noyes, and Miss Prouty, Professor Pierce has been engaged in the investigation of supersonic noises in nature, or those noises made by small animals and insects at frequencies over 18,000 per second, the upper limit of the human...
Centennial celebrations plans to commemorate the birth of President Eliot on Tuesday, March 20, were announced yesterday by Edwin H. Hall, Rumford Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and president of the Charles William Eliot Memorial Association. The anniversary will be marked by the unveiling of a bust of President Eliot presented to Eliot House by the association, and by speeches by many well-known men concerning the former president, including a nation-wide broadcast by President Conant, former President Lowell, and Chief Justice Hughes...