Rumford Inventions' Models, Heine's Works Mark Shows

Two exhibitions, one comprised of drawings and models of inventions of the English scientist, Count Rumford, and the other including a collection of German author Hendrick Heine's works have just opened here.

The display of Heine's work in Houghton Library is the first public showing of his books, manuscripts, and letters given to the University in 1938 by the late Carl M. Loeb. The exhibit marks the hundreth year since his death.

Included are the first editions of every volume of poetry or prose which the writer published during his lifetime. There are documents from every part of his career, ranging from days as a young law student in Germany to these as an expatriate journalist in Paris, where he spent the last 20 years of his life.

Count Rumford, a title that Benjamin Thompson acquired through his service to the Elector of Bavaria, studied everything from biology to how to build a better fireplace. By careful study of air currents and the flow of warm and cold air in fireplaces he developed the throat, smoke shelf, and damper, which constitute the present non-smoking hearth.

Among his political activities he fought for the Tories in the Revolutionary War, was knighted by George III, served the Elector of Bavaria, and became foreign minister to England but was not accepted by George III because of his British citizenship.