Count Rumford (Benj. Thompson) Monument (Woburn, Massachusetts, USA)

This is one of those postcards where we feel obliged to tell you who’s who. Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th-century revolution in thermodynamics. (He was born in Woburn in 1753.) (No, we didn’t know either.) Unused old, undivided back card. Grade: 1