| 单词 | Rumford, Count |
| 释义 | Rumford, Count (Benjamin Thompson; 1753–1814) American-born British physicist, who acted as an English spy during the American Revolution. As a result he was forced to flee in 1775, first to England and then to Munich. There he observed the boring of cannon barrels, which led him to his best-known proposition, that friction produces heat. While in Munich he was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire. Returning to England in 1795, he helped to demolish the caloric theory |
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