Biography of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (Commonwealth of Massachusetts) on January 17, 1706. Franklin was an American politician, scientist, and inventor; student of electricity and considered one of the founding fathers of t
FRANKLIN’S CIVIC AFFAIRSIn the 1730s, Benjamin Franklin established Philadelphia’s first public lending library, the first fire department, and a police patrol. Franklin also organized the American Philosophical Society, an organization with the purpose of pursuing scientific research. Franklin became ...
Continuing Freeman’s | Hindman’s spring series of books, manuscripts, and historical ephemera sales, its Books and Manuscripts a Benjamin Franklin Book-Related Items to Auction April 27, 2024 A selection of rare objects commemorating bibliophile, printer and Founding Father Benjamin Sun Yat-sen...
Introduction: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Born in Boston, Benjamin Franklin was the youngest son of the youngest son five generations back. His father, Josiah Franklin, left Northamptonshire, England for America in reaction against the Church of England. Though he tried to have his son educated...
In 1894, Ohio mathematician Benjamin Franklin Finkel founded The American Mathematical Monthly to engage a broader audience of mathematicians than were involved with the newly formed American Mathematical Society. Along with mathematical... E Abrams - 《Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences》 被引...
Evidences on the authorship of Franklin; Purpose of Franklin in writing t... Lemay,JA Leo - 《Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America》 被引量: 1发表: 2001年 LEMAY, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 3, Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748–1757 Focuses on the book '...
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Lewis Douglas, wife of the American Ambassador in London, unveiled a commemorative tablet in Benjamin Franklin House, 36 Craven Street, London, W.C.2. This is the headquarters of the British Society for International Understanding, an educational organisation which was formed early in 1939 to ...
— Benjamin Franklin Cite This Quote Quote source:"On True Happiness",Pennsylvania Gazette(20 November 1735). “Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins...
Benjamin Franklin and Geropsychiatry: Vignettes for the Bicentennial Year It is timely in this Bicentennial year for readers of a journal devoted to geriatrics to refer to the wisdom of an older leader of the Revolution of 1776. ... VT Sherr - 《Journal of the American Geriatrics Society》 ...