About this title: Like his countrymean and contemporary Franklin, Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford) aimed by his inventions and scientific research to increase the degree of comfort in daily life. During fourteen years spent in Munich, he made important reforms in the city's public service and social welfare institutions; he also introduced improvements in ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780674139541ISBN:0674139542
Description: Good in Good jacket. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" Text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to dustjacket. 503 pages. Volume 4 only: "Light and Armament". read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780674139541ISBN:0674139542
Description: Very Good/Good. 0674139542 Jacket faintly darkening at spine and some light edgewear, and few tiny tears at corner and spine head. 503 pages. 8vo. Gray cloth. 'A unique portrait of the scientific, political, and social conditions of the early years of the Industrial Revolution', and of American-British physicist, Benjamin Thomas Rumford. (Volumes III and V are also available). read more
Description: Good. 0674139542 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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