• the Rumford Prize, awarded for excellent contributions to the fields of heat and light, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in America?

Facts on topics related to Rumford Prize

Boston

• Boston newspaper publisher John Mein shot a grenadier in a scuffle?
• Boston's Southwest Corridor Park was built along the vacant path of a canceled highway?
• Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
• Franklin W. Smith helped establish the YMCA in Boston, the first chapter of the organization in the United States?
• Freedom House, founded in 1949, raised money to support Operation Exodus, a voluntary desegregation and busing project in Boston before court-ordered desegregation?
• Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
• John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
• Joseph T. Buckingham, a leading Boston journalist of the 1830s, was an indentured farm laborer as a boy?
• Shanty Hogan, a catcher with the New York Giants, joined with teammate Andy Cohen to form a vaudeville duo billed as "Cohen and Hogan", except in Boston, where they performed as "Hogan and Cohen"?
• Thomas Gold Appleton, the brother-in-law of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow known as "the Boston wit", is reported to have said as he was dying, "It will be a new experience"?

Columbus, Ohio

• the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?
• the first religious leader of Temple Israel in Columbus, Ohio, was Simon Lazarus, a clothing merchant who founded what would become Lazarus department stores?

Massachusetts

• child actor Johnny Washbrook, though educated at two London art academies, spent his later adult years as a banker in Massachusetts?
• Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, was founded by Jonas Gilman Clark in 1887?
• philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts?
• Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?
• Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England, and the largest community bank in Massachusetts?
• Pythagoras, Kepler, and Galileo reside in a subway station under Cambridge, Massachusetts?
• Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
• Schwartz Communications, the largest PR agency in Massachusetts, started by making campaigns for baby food before specializing on counseling pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies?
• Wonderland Greyhound Park in Revere, Massachusetts features over Template:Unit mile of underground piping which heats the race track on cold and wet days?
• architect H. Neill Wilson designed massive summer cottages in Massachusetts' Berkshire County, including Shadowbrook where Andrew Carnegie died?

Connecticut

• textile manufacturing in the mill village of Hallville in Connecticut dates to 1752, when a fulling mill was built there?
• Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport, and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut?
• Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
• Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades?
• Holy Land USA (pictured), a Connecticut theme park intended to replicate Bethlehem and Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually?
• Noella Marcellino, a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese, was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut's Abbey of Regina Laudis?
• Richard Blumenthal is Connecticut's Attorney General and was awarded the Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service by the Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2002?
• The Corporate Center in Danbury, Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
• The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut"?
• Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I?

Maryland

• Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
• Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly?
• Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
• Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine?
• Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state?
• Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate, Senate President, and State Treasurer?
• Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
• Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
• Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
• Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?

New York City

• African-American gay and transgender Ali Forney, once homeless himself, had a homeless LGBT youth center in New York City named after him for his work helping other youths?
• architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
• Australian singer Lana Cantrell, a 1968 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, later became an entertainment lawyer in New York City?
• Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
• Hal the Central Park Coyote got his nickname from his temporary lair in Hallett Nature Sanctuary (pictured) in Central Park, New York City?
• Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse played in New York City in both Yiddish (1911) and German (1916) before it was ever presented there in English (1918)?
• New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
• New York City has been working on the Second Avenue Subway project since 1919?
• New York City's Ramaz School, with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
• New York City's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?

Providence, Rhode Island

• Louis Edward Gelineau, the American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was succeeded by Robert Edward Mulvee in 1997, opposed a 1985 ordinance for the city of Providence to protect homosexuals from discrimination?
• Little Liberia in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Hard Scrabble in Providence, Rhode Island, were two urban New England neighborhoods created by free blacks in the early 19th century?
• the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?

New York

• 14 of the 16 founding congregants of New York's Peekskill Presbyterian Church were women?
• Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms (pictured) that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
• BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
• Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
• Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, who served in both the Confederate Army and Navy, later became New York's Chinese Inspector?
• comedian Russ Meneve co-founded the "New York Comedians Coalition" in order to negotiate better payment for New York's comedians?
• Franz von Rintelen, a German spy living in New York during World War I, used pencil bombs to sabotage Allied shipping?
• Jack Womack's 2000 alternate history novel Going, Going, Gone is set in two converging parallel versions of New York?
• New York Governor David Paterson's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday?
• New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans?

Rhode Island

• American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?
• Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
• Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
• Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds that receives significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
• Charles R. Brayton, as political boss of Rhode Island, pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
• Ninigret Pond is the largest of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds?
• Trustom Pond in Rhode Island, United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
• according to legend, clams casino (pictured), a dish that is popular with Italian-Americans, was first created in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 1917?
• due to certain environmental conditions, Maschaug Pond in Rhode Island is considered particularly vulnerable to storm surge?
• one of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Commuter Rail stations is located in Rhode Island?