COUNT RUMFORD. 155 



A la Memoire 



de 

 BENJAMIN THOMPSOH, 



Comte de Rumford, 

 n6 en 1753, & Concord ' pres Boston, 



en Amerique, 

 mort le 21 Aout, 1814, & AuteuiL 



Physicien c61bre, 



Philanthrope clair6, 



ses decouver'.es sur la lumiere 



et la chaleur 



ont illnstre son nom. 



Bes travaux pour ameliorer 



le sort des pauvres 

 le feront toujours cherl 

 des amis de I'humanitfi. 



The flat stone is thus inscribed : 



En Baviere 

 Lieutenant General, 

 Chef de 1'Etat-Major General, 



Conseiller d'Etat, 

 Ministre de la Guerre. 



En France 



Membre de 1'Institut, 

 Academie des Sciences. 



KUMFORD'S SCIENTIFIC WORK. 



As a factor in human affairs, Rumford ascribed to 

 gunpowder a dominant importance. No other invention 

 had exercised so great an influence. Hence the arduous 

 labour he expended in determining its action. At 

 Stoneland Lodge, the country seat of Lord George 

 Germain, in the year 1778, his inquiries into the 

 force and applications of gunpowder began. He directed 

 his attention to the position of the vent, the weight and 

 pressure of the charge, its bursting power, the quickness 

 of combustion, the weight and velocity of the projectile, 

 the effect of windage, and to many other matters of in- 

 terest to the gunner. On all these questions he threw 



1 Ought to be Woburn. 

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