Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy: Count Rumford - The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius

Brown, G. I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750921846 ISBN 13: 9780750921848

Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1999

A scientific biography of Count Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution, who arrived in England in 1776, and invented methods for improved heating, lighting and cooking, through his discovery of how heat was made.

About the Author:

G.I. Brown taught chemistry and was a housemaster at Eton College until his retirement in 1984. He is the author of The Guinness History of Inventions (Guinness Publishing, 1996), several highly successful chemistry textbooks and The Big Bang: A History of Explosives (Sutton, 1998).