Essays, political, economical, and philosophical /cby Benjamin Count of Rumford...
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies...
Published: 1798
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Charities; Food; Fireplaces; Heat; Kitchen utensils; Munich (Germany) -- Poor
Notes: Volume 2 does not indicate edition; v. 3 indicates"a new edition".

Gift to Victoria University Library. IHPST. 2007/12/03.

Victoria University Library copy Ex libris IHPST.
Table of contents: value: v. 1.  An account of an establishment for the poor at Munich. Of the fundamental principles on which general establishments for the relief of the poor may be formed in all countries.  Of food; and particularly of feeding the poor.  Of chimney fire-places.  A short account of several public instituions lately formed in Bavaria. Appendix.-  v. 2.  Of the management of fire, and the economy of fuel. Of the propagation of heat in fluids.  Of the propagation of heat in various substances.  An experimental inquiry concerning the source of the heat which is excited by friction.-  v. 3.  On the construction of kitchen fire-places and kitchen utensils, together with remarks and observations relating to the various processes of cookery; and proposals for improving that most useful art.  Supplementary observations concerning chimney fire-places.  Observations concerning the salubrity of warm rooms in cold weather.  Observations concerning the salubrity of warm bathing, and the principles on which warm-baths should be constructed.  Supplementary observations relating to the management of fires in closed fire-places. Of the use of steam as a vehicle for transporting heat from one place to another.