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the age of 13 he was apprenticedto john appleton, a merchant of nearby salem.
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he met, charmed and married a rich and well- connected heiress named sarah rolfe.
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when the american revoution began, thompson was a man of property and standing in new england
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during the american revolution, thompson was an active tory who surved the british king by spying on his country men.
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after the fall of boston, he fled to england, leaving behind his wife and daughter.
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While working with the British armies in America, he conducted experiments concerning the force of gunpowder, the results of which were widely acclaimed when eventually published, in 1781,
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he joined the court of the elector of bavaria where he instituted numerous social reforms including work houses for munich beggars.
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he moved to Bavaria where he became an aide-de-camp to the Prince-elector Karl Theodor.
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founded the Englischer Garten in Munich
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he extended his claim about non-conductivity to liquids
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However, Rumford's most important scientific work took place in Munich, and centred on the nature of heat, which he contended in An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction (1798) was not the caloric of then-current scientific thinking but a form of motion
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he started the royal institution in london as a center for technological innovations
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he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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thompson went to paris were he married the widow of antoine lavoisier.
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