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Benjamin Thompson blue plaque
Benjamin Thompson · Inventor
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“Sir Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford 1753-1814 inventor and adventurer lived here”
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1753-1814
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168 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea, SW3
SW3
Erected 1999
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168 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea, SW3
SW3
51.498000, -0.166830
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