Rumford
Americannoun
noun
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To test this idea, Rumford placed the cannon barrels in water and timed how long it took for the water to boil.
From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025
But his forceful advocacy of the Rumford Act contributed significantly to the governor’s reelection defeat in 1966.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2023
Producers will also film in several city locations doubling as 1990s East London, including the gardens of St Nicholas Church and Tower Gardens, Rumford Street and Anfield, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2022
Why, the institute wanted to know, were “all these kids with cancer” coming from Rumford?
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2020
Convection as a process was first deduced by the eccentric Count von Rumford at the end of the eighteenth century.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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