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Benjamin Thompson

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Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (Reichsgraf von Rumford; March 26, 1753August 21, 1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. [1]

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America's Favorite Architecture

"America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction

"An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction" (1798), which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, is a scientific paper by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford that provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat and began the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.

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Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 178814 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.

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Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal Society

The Royal Society presents numerous awards, lectures and medals to recognise scientific achievement.

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Baking powder

Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid and is used for increasing the volume and lightening the texture of baked goods.

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Bavarian Army

The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1919) of Bavaria.

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Benjamin Thompson (disambiguation)

Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor.

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Benjamin Thompson House–Count Rumford Birthplace

The Benjamin Thompson House (also known as the Count Rumford Birthplace) is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 90 Elm Street, in the North Woburn area of Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Bibliothèque Britannique

The Bibliothèque Britannique was a monthly journal of the sciences and the arts published in Geneva by Marc-Auguste Pictet, his younger brother Charles, and their friend Frédéric-Guillaume Maurice.

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Caloric theory

The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder bodies.

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Charles Haldat

Charles Nicolas Alexandre Haldat du Lys (24 December 1770 – 26 November 1852) was a French physicist who performed experimental work in hydrostatics.

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Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria

Charles Theodore (Karl Theodor; 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799) reigned as Prince-elector and Count Palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as prince-elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777 to his death.

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Chief of the General Staff (Kingdom of Bavaria)

The Chief of the General Staff (German: Chef des Generalstabes der Armee) of the Bavarian army was the military leader of the armed forces in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

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Coffee percolator

A coffee percolator is a type of pot used for the brewing of coffee by continually cycling the boiling or nearly boiling brew through the grounds using gravity until the required strength is reached.

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Coffeemaker

Coffeemakers or coffee machines are cooking appliances used to brew coffee.

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Complementary colors

Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out.

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Concord, New Hampshire

Concord is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the county seat of Merrimack County.

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Conservation of energy

In physics, the law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant, it is said to be ''conserved'' over time.

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Dobson's Encyclopædia

Dobson's Encyclopædia was the first encyclopedia issued in the newly independent United States of America, published by Thomas Dobson from 1789–1798.

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Edmund C. Converse

Edmund Cogswell Converse (November 7, 1849 – April 4, 1921) was an American businessman, banker and baseball executive.

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Elizabeth Fulhame

Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794) was a Scottish chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction.

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Ellen Swallow Richards

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century.

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Englischer Garten

The Englischer Garten (English Garden) is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical jardin à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Entropy

In statistical mechanics, entropy is an extensive property of a thermodynamic system.

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Experimental physics

Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments.

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Fawdon

Fawdon is an electoral ward of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Fireplace

A fireplace is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire.

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Fort Golgotha and the Old Burial Hill Cemetery

Fort Golgotha and the Old Burial Hill Cemetery is the site of an historic cemetery, officially known as the "Old Burying Ground", and the location of a former Revolutionary War-era fort, known as Fort Golgotha, at Main Street (NY 25A) and Nassau Road in Huntington, New York.

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Friedrich Accum

Friedrich Christian Accum or Frederick Accum (March 29, 1769 – June 28, 1838) was a German chemist, whose most important achievements included advances in the field of gas lighting, efforts to keep processed foods free from dangerous additives, and the promotion of interest in the science of chemistry to the general populace.

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Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell

Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (13 September 1750, Weilburg – 24 February 1823, Munich) was a German landscape gardener from Weilburg an der Lahn.

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Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach

Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach (24 August 1771 – 21 May 1826), German scientific instrument maker, was born at Durlach in Baden on 24 August 1771.

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George Edward Ellis

George Edward Ellis (8 August 1814 – 20 December 1894) was a Unitarian clergyman and historian.

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George Parkman

George Parkman (February 19, 1790November 23, 1849), a Boston Brahmin and a member of one of Boston's richest families, was a prominent physician, businessman, and philanthropist, as well the victim in the sensationally gruesome Parkman–Webster murder case, which shook Boston in 1849–1850.

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George Rumford Baldwin

George Rumford Baldwin (North Woburn, January 26, 1798 – North Woburn, October 11, 1888) an early American civil engineer who worked with his father Loammi Baldwin and brothers Loammi Baldwin, Jr. Cyrus Baldwin, Benjamin Franklin Baldwin, and James Fowle Baldwin, on the Middlesex Canal and other projects.

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Hall of Fame for Great Americans

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is an outdoor sculpture gallery, located on the grounds of Bronx Community College in the Bronx, New York City.

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Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.

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Hipólito da Costa

Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça (August 13, 1774 – September 11, 1823) was a Brazilian journalist and diplomat considered to be the "father of Brazilian press".

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History of heat

The history of heat has a prominent place in the history of science.

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History of military technology

The military funding of science has had a powerful transformative effect on the practice and products of scientific research since the early 20th century.

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History of physics

Physics (from the Ancient Greek φύσις physis meaning "nature") is the fundamental branch of science.

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History of thermodynamics

The history of thermodynamics is a fundamental strand in the history of physics, the history of chemistry, and the history of science in general.

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House of Industry (Dublin)

A House of Industry was established in Dublin by an act of parliament in 1703, "for the employment and maintaining the poor thereof." In 1729 the House of Industry became a foundling hospital as well.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.

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James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule (24 December 1818 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire.

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James Renwick (physicist)

James Renwick (1790–1863), was an English-American scientist and engineer.

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James Swan (financier)

James Swan (1754 – 31 July 1830) was a colorful personality based in Boston in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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James Thomson (calico printer)

James Thomson (6 February 1779 – 27 April 1850) was an English industrial chemist who made a career and large reputation in calico printing.

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John Brooks (governor)

John Brooks (baptized May 4, 1752 – March 1, 1825) was a doctor, military officer, and politician from Massachusetts.

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John Leslie (physicist)

Sir John Leslie, FRSE KH (10 April 1766 – 3 November 1832) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat.

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John Tweddell

John Tweddell (1769–1799) was an English classical scholar and traveller.

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John Winthrop (educator)

John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 – May 3, 1779) was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College.

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Karlstor

Karlstor in Munich (called Neuhauser Tor until 1791) is one of what used to be Munich's famed city wall from the medieval ages till late into the 18th century.

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Kennerley Rumford

Robert Henry Kennerley Rumford (2 September 1870 – 9 March 1957) was an English baritone singer of the 20th century.

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King's American Dragoons

The King's American Dragoons were a British provincial military unit, raised for Loyalist service during the American Revolutionary War.

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Kitchen

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment.

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Kitchen stove

A kitchen stove, often called simply a stove or a cooker, is a kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food.

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Kitchen utensil

A kitchen utensil is a small hand held tool used for food preparation.

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Light Fantastic (TV series)

Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four.

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List of American scientists

This is a list of American scientists.

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List of British scientists

This is a list of British scientists.

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List of craters on the Moon: R–S

The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for.

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List of discoveries

This article presents a list of discoveries and includes famous observations.

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List of English Heritage blue plaques in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

This is a complete list of the 177 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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List of experiments

The following is a list of historically important scientific experiments and observations demonstrating something of great scientific interest, typically in an elegant or clever manner.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1779.

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List of Fellows of the Royal Society S, T, U, V

About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society since its inception in 1660.

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List of foods named after people

This is a list of foods and dishes named after people.

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List of historic houses in Massachusetts

This is a list of historic houses in Massachusetts.

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List of inventions named after people

This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after).

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List of multiple discoveries

Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery".

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List of museums in Massachusetts

This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 188 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders.

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List of people from Concord, New Hampshire

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, New Hampshire.

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List of people from Massachusetts

This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts.

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List of people from Portsmouth, New Hampshire

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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List of United States Representatives from Massachusetts

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Loammi Baldwin

Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.

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Lorenzo Sabine

Lorenzo Sabine (February 28, 1803 – April 14, 1877) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts now more remembered for his research and publishing concerning the Loyalists of the American Revolution than as a public servant.

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Low-temperature cooking

Low-temperature cooking is a cooking technique using temperatures of for a prolonged time to cook food.

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Loyalist (American Revolution)

Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men at the time.

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Marc-Auguste Pictet

Marc-Auguste Pictet (July 23, 1752 – April 19, 1825) was a scientific journalist and an experimental natural philosopher (physicist, chemist, meteorologist, astronomer) from Geneva, Switzerland.

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March 26

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Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier

Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (20 January 1758 in Montbrison, Loire, France – 10 February 1836) was a French chemist and noble.

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Mastermind (TV series)

Mastermind is a British game show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting, and air of seriousness.

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Mastermind Champion of Champions

Mastermind Champion of Champions is a pair of special series of BBC quiz program Mastermind, featuring past winners.

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Maximilianstraße (Munich)

The Maximilianstraße in Munich is one of the city's four royal avenues next to the Brienner Straße, the Ludwigstraße and the Prinzregentenstraße.

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McCrae Homestead

McCrae Homestead is an historic property located in McCrae, Victoria, Australia.

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Measuring instrument

A measuring instrument is a device for measuring a physical quantity.

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Mechanical equivalent of heat

In the history of science, the mechanical equivalent of heat states that motion and heat are mutually interchangeable and that in every case, a given amount of work would generate the same amount of heat, provided the work done is totally converted to heat energy.

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Middlesex Canal

The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile (44-kilometer) barge canal connecting the Merrimack River with the port of Boston.

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Molecular gastronomy

Molecular gastronomy is a subdiscipline of food science that seeks to investigate the physical and chemical transformations of ingredients that occur in cooking.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Oslo breakfast

The Oslo breakfast was a type of uncooked school meal developed in the 1920s and rolled out as a free universal provision for Oslo school children in 1932.

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Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg

Pauline Christine Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Bernburg (also: Princess Pauline of Lippe; 23 February 1769, Ballenstedt – 29 December 1820, Detmold) was a princess consort of Lippe, married in 1796 to Leopold I, Prince of Lippe.

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Regency era

The Regency in Great Britain was a period when King George III was deemed unfit to rule and his son ruled as his proxy as Prince Regent.

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Reinhard von Werneck

Reinhard Freiherr von Werneck (28 June 1757 – 27 July 1842) was the successor of Benjamin Thompson in the management of the English Garden in Munich, Germany.

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Royal Institution

The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often abbreviated as the Royal Institution or Ri) is an organisation devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.

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Rumford

Rumford may refer to.

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Rumford (crater)

Rumford is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon.

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Rumford fireplace

The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Anglo-American physicist best known for his investigations of heat.

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Rumford furnace

A Rumford furnace is a kiln for the industrial scale production in the 19th century of calcium oxide, popularly known as quicklime or burnt lime.

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Rumford Medal

The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by Britain's Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe".

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Rumford Prize

Founded in 1796, the Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in the United States.

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Rumford's Soup

Rumford's Soup (Rumfordsche Suppe, also called economy soup) was an early effort in scientific nutrition.

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Rumford, Rhode Island

Rumford, Rhode Island is the northern section of the city of East Providence, Rhode Island.

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Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford

Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, (18 October 1774 - 2 December 1852) was a philanthropist.

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School breakfast club

A school breakfast club is a provision for children to eat a healthy breakfast in a safe environment before their first class.

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Seaton Burn Wagonway

The Brunton and Shields Railway or Seaton Burn Wagonway was from 1826 to 1920 a partially horse-drawn and partially rope-operated industrial railway with a gauge of near Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet

Sir Philip Gibbes, 1st Baronet, also Gibbs (1731–1815) was a planter in Barbados.

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Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet

Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet (27 April 1750 – 1 July 1818) was an English social reformer whose father, as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1760–1770), played a responsible part in directing the British policy which led to the revolt of the American colonies.

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Soup kitchen

A soup kitchen, meal center, or food kitchen is a place where food is offered to the hungry usually for free or sometimes at a below market price.

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Sous-vide

Sous-vide (French for "under vacuum") is a method of cooking in which food is placed in a plastic pouch or a glass jar and then placed in a water bath or steam environment for longer than normal cooking times (usually 1 to 7 hours, up to 48 or more in some cases) at an accurately regulated temperature.

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Stove

A stove is an enclosed space in which fuel is burned to heat either the space in which the stove is situated, or items placed on the heated stove itself.

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Superseded scientific theories

A superseded, or obsolete, scientific theory is a scientific theory that the mainstream scientific community once widely accepted, but now considers an inadequate or incomplete description of reality, or simply false.

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The Oeconomist, Or, Englishman's Magazine

The Oeconomist, full title The Oeconomist, Or, Englishman's Magazine, was an English monthly periodical at the end of the 18th century.

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The Romance of Science

The Romance of Science was a Canadian scientific docudrama television series which aired on CBC Television in 1960.

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Theory of heat

In the problem of science, the theory of heat or mechanical theory of heat was a theory, introduced in 1798 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (better known as 'Count Rumford'), and developed more thoroughly in 1824 by the French physicist Sadi Carnot, that heat and mechanical work are equivalent.

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Thomas Garnett (physician)

Thomas Garnett (21 April 1766 – 28 June 1802) was an English physician and natural philosopher.

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Thompson (surname)

Thompson is a patronymic surname of English and Scottish origin, with a variety of spellings meaning "son of Thom".

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Time in physics

Time in physics is defined by its measurement: time is what a clock reads.

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Timeline of thermodynamics

A timeline of events related to thermodynamics.

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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890)

A timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Colonial Period to the Gilded Age, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.

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Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a Minister of State.

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Underfloor heating

Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling which achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using conduction, radiation and convection.

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University Hills, Irvine

University Hills is a housing development on the campus of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in southern Irvine, California, United States, consisting of 1066 for-sale homes and 360 rental units.

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Vis viva

Vis viva (from the Latin for "living force") is a historical term used for the first (known) description of what we now call kinetic energy in an early formulation of the principle of conservation of energy.

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Wilhelmine Dorothee von der Marwitz

Wilhelmine Dorothee von der Marwitz (April 1718-16 January 1787), was the royal mistress of Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, from the late 1730s until 1744.

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Wilmington, Massachusetts

Wilmington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Winn Memorial Library

Winn Memorial Library / Woburn Public Library (1876–79) is a National Historic Landmark in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Woburn, Massachusetts

Woburn is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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1753

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1753 in science

The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1790 House

The 1790 House, also called the Joseph Bartlett House or the Bartlett–Wheeler House, is a historic house located at 827 Main Street, Woburn, Massachusetts, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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1792 in science

The year 1792 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1798 in science

The year 1798 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1814

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1814 in science

The year 1814 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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2010 CIS football season

The 2010 CIS football season began on August 31, 2010 with the Windsor Lancers hosting the Ottawa Gee-Gees and the defending Vanier Cup champion Queen's Golden Gaels visiting the McMaster Marauders.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Thompson

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