POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL,

AND

PHILOSOPHICAL.

BY BENJAMIN COUNT OF RUMFORD,

KNIGHT OF THE ORDERS OF THE WHITE FAGLE, AND ST. STANISLAUS;

Chamberlain, Privy Counsellor of State, and Lieutenant-General in the Service of his Moft Serene Highness the ELECTOR PALATINE, Reigning DUKE of BAVARIA; Colonel of his Regiment of Artillery, and Commander in Chief of the General Staff of his Army; F. R. S. Acad. R.

Hiber. Berol. Elec. Boico. Palat. et Amer. Soc.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

PRINTED FOR

LONDON:

T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES
IN THE STRAND.

1798.

Allen
7-18-28
17635

CONTENTS

OF THE

SIXTH ESSAY.

CHAP. I.

THE Subject of this Essay curious and interefting in

a very high degree.-All the Comforts, Conve-

niencies, and Luxuries of Life, are procured by

the Affiftance of FIRE and of HEAT.-The Wafte

of Fuel very great.-Importance of the Economy of

Fuel to Individuals, and to the Public.-Means

used for estimating the Amount of the Waste of Fuel.

-An Account of the first Kitchen of the House of

Industry at Munich, and of the Expence of Fuel in

that Kitchen, compared with the Quantity confumed

in the Kitchens of private Families.-An Account

of feveral other Kitchens conftructed on various

Principles at Munich, under the Direction of the

Author.-Introduction to a more scientific Investi-

gation of the Subject under confideration. Page 3

CHAP. II.

Of the GENERATION OF HEAT in the COMBUSTION

OF FUEL.-Without knowing what Heat really

is, the Laws of its Action may be investigated.-

Probability that the Heat generated in the Combuf-

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tion