As co-founder of Britain’s Royal Institution we should thank Benjamin
Thompson (1753-1814). In Count Rumford, the larger-than-life story of this
Massachusetts farm boy, British spy, inventor, minister of police for Bavaria,
Papal knight and philanderer is well told by George Brown. Published by Sutton,
$21.95, ISBN 0750921846.
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