rumfordian

Updated: August 25, 2026

Meantime there is another line of application of the ideas which the low-temperature work has brought into prominence which has a peculiar interest in the present connection because of its singularly Rumfordian cast, so to speak, I mean the idea of the insulation of cooled or heated objects in the ordinary affairs of life, as, for example, in cooking.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science, Volume 5 : Aspects Of Recent Science