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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
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Hi Tech Kitchen Circa 1825
Benjamin Thompson, later known as Count Rumford, was an inventor born in Massachusetts who lived in Concord, NH, at one time. He created a number of advances in heating and cooking devices. His shallow, angle-sided fireplace design was much more efficient at heating a room than previous designs, (It is still in use today.) His Rumford range, or stew stove, allowed women to cook standing up. A Loyalist, he left America for England during the Revolution. He ended up a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. At that time, he chose to use Rumford in his title, because Rumford was an earlier name for Concord, NH. I have posted a picture of a Rumford range on my Buss board on Pinterest.com/dgjensen116.
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
Prissy pumped water into the sink to rinse the last plate from breakfast. The shallow granite slab, with its small pump and its drain to the outside, was one of the modern conveniences Father had installed in our old colonial house when he had married Mother. Another was the Rumford range on the opposite wall, a brick structure with two round holes for cooking, each with a closely fitted metal pot resting over a firebox below it.
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