Woburn, Count Rumford (Benj. Thompson) Monument
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