Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Vol. 4: Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The great waste of fuel in all countries must be apparent to the most cursory observer; and the uses to which fire is employed are so very extensive, and the expense for fuel makes so considerable an article in the list of necessaries, that the importance of the subject cannot be denied.
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