Boston 1775

By the first anniversary of his marriage to Marie Anne Lavoisier , Count Rumford was calling her “a female Dragon.” (Though, as quoted yest...

In late 1801, as I’ve been relating , Woburn native Benjamin Thompson , now a knight of the British Empire and Count Rumford of the Holy Ro...

As I wrote yesterday , Benjamin Thompson left a wife and infant daughter behind in New Hampshire when he joined the British side of the Re...