Fazekas Éva: A fekete leves, a kávéfőzés története, időszaki kiállítás, 2010. április 23 - 2010. október 25, a Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, a Magyar Műszaki és Közlekedési Múzeum és a Fazekas & Kimmel Gyűjtemény közös időszaki kiállítása (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 2010)

Éva Fazekas-József Kimmel: POTS, FLASKS AND PERCOLATORS

Nikkelezett szűrőkanna, 1900-as évek eleje, F&K gyűjtemény Nickel-plated filter pot, early 19"

1 century, F&K collection shop assistant but excelled with his shrewd mind in such a way that he soon reached a high rank with the municipal police. After the war of independence had broken out, he left for London. In 1776 he obtained the rank of deputy state secretary and, in appreciation of his inventions, was knighted by George 111. Besides thermodynamics he had been interested in since childhood, and in the field of which his most valuable results came into being, he dealt with trigonometry and designing of ships, with astronomy and the development of an invisible ink. Preceding [oule by decades, he recognized the direct relationship Zománcozott szűrőkanna részeire szedve, két világháború közötti időszak, F&K gyűjtemény Enamelled filter pot taken apart, interwar period, F&K collection between heat and mechanical energy, therefore he has been respected as one of the "fathers" of thermodynamics. After England and the already independent America had made peace, Thompson took service with elector Charles-Theodore of Bavaria, where he reached the title of a count and the post of war minister. Moreover, in the absence of the sovereign he was the leader of the country. It was here that he took up the name of Rumford better known in the world of science than his original name. By his social provisions he gained great popularity: he organized the first communal kitchens in the world for the poor, and - by securing public work, he eliminated begging. After Charles-Theodore's death he returned to London. In 1800 he founded the Royal Institution in London. In 1

802 he moved to Paris, where he married the widow of the famous chemist Lavoisier. However, the marriage had been a failure, and they soon divorced. Thompson died in Auteuil in 1814. The history of gastronomy preserves his memory not only owing to the well-known German popular dish, the "Rumford soup" but because he devised the kitchen range heated by wood, covered with an iron plate and 87