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"Rather for me is that question," he answered, in such agitation he could not, though he meant it, assist her into the chaise, "for mine, I believe, is the greater surprise!" "What surprise?" cried she, "explain, I conjure you!" "By and bye I will," he answered; "go on postilion." "Where, Sir?" "Where you came from, I suppose." "What, Sir, back to Rumford?"
He amazed all the quidnuncs by buying, for fifty thousand dollars, Rumford Dawes' old tract of rocks on the Brandywine, which everybody knew was perfectly useless. The stranger was pitied as he began to blast away the stone.
In 1862 he was granted the rarely bestowed Rumford medal, and received at other times during his life medals, honors, and decorations such as have perhaps fallen to no other who has wrought in the same field of human effort.
"From whence came this heat which was continually given off in this manner, in the foregoing experiments?" asks Rumford. "Was it furnished by the small particles of metal detached from the larger solid masses on their being rubbed together? This, as we have already seen, could not possibly have been the case. "Was it furnished by the air?
I have never been in such society, and shall not know what to talk about. If it was like a quilting, such as we have at Rumford, I might get on, but I know I shall be the laughing-stock of the ladies." "I am not afraid of it. Just be yourself, that's all." The clock on the Old Brick Meetinghouse was striking three when they passed it on their way to the Newville mansion. "You will find Mr.
Four men sat in low-toned conference around the governor's writing-table, and if any one of them had looked up the silent witness must have been discovered. Kent marked them down one by one: the governor; Hendricks, the secretary of State; Rumford, the oil man; and Senator Duvall.
A number of ingenious experiments enabled him to determine with increasing exactitude the numerical relation between work and heat, as well as to establish the absolute constancy of the relation. This he regarded as proof of the mechanical theory of heat, which he had taken from Rumford and Davy.
"What's the matter with the man?" cried Lady Harriett. I quickly recovered my presence of mind, and reseated myself: "Pray forgive me, Lady Harriett," said I; "but I think, nay, I am sure, I see a person I once met under very particular circumstances. Do you observe that dark man in deep mourning, who has just entered the room, and is now speaking to Sir Ralph Rumford?"
Ritson; "she's such a nice genteel little figure." Sir Ralph, apparently tired of this "feeshionable" conversation, swaggered away. "Pray," said Mrs. Dollimore, "who is that geentleman?" "Sir Ralph Rumford," replied Smith, eagerly, "a particular friend of mine at Cambridge." "I wonder if he's going to make a long steey?" said Mrs. Dollimore. "Yes, I believe so," replied Mr.
The first clear connection and experimental proof of the modern theory was made by our countryman Benjamin Thompson, afterwards knighted as Count Rumford by the Elector of Bavaria. He went to Europe in the time of the American Revolution, and, devoting himself to scientific investigations, became the founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
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