Among his many creations were the lightning rod glass harmonica instrument not to be confused with metal Franklin stove bifocal glasses and flexible urinary catheter. From to he served as governor of Pennsylvania. The First American Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin ISBN scholarly biography online free Crane Vernon W [...]

Le Globe created by professor Jacques Charles and Fr res Robert was watched vast crowd it rose from the Champ de Mars now site Eiffel Tower. Franklin Autobiography ed [...]

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Franklin s proposal which was not adopted featured the motto Rebellion Tyrants is Obedience God and scene from Book of Exodus with Moses Israelites pillar fire George III depicted pharaoh. The motion met with resistance and was never brought to vote. To Joseph Priestley [...]

K. In both Harvard and Yale awarded him honorary degrees. He married his first wife Anne Child in about Ecton and immigrated with her Boston they had three children before immigrating four after [...]

Sincerity. The same year edited and published first Masonic book in Americas reprint of James Anderson Constitutions FreeMasons. Bache grandson William Franklin Andrew Harwood greatgrandson Alexander Josiah father Jane Mecom sister James brother Mary Morrell Folger grandmother Peter grandfather Richard sonin law Ann Smith sisterin Category Commons Portal Offices Positions Held by Benjamin Academic New institution Provost Academy Succeeded byWilliam Smithas College Pennsylvania Political Preceded byIsaac Norris Speaker Assembly United States Postmaster General byRichard byJames Irvine Member Supreme Executive Council bySamuel Miles byJohn Dickinson President byThomas Mifflin Diplomatic posts Minister to France Jefferson Sweden byJonathan Russell Articles related vteCopley Medallists Canton Pringle Lewis Huxham Charles Cavendish Dollond Smeaton Wilson Brownrigg Edward Delaval Henry Ellis Woulfe Hewson Hamilton Matthew Raper Joseph Priestley Walsh Nevil Maskelyne Cook Mudge Hutton Vince Herschel Kirwan Goodricke Hutchins Waring Roy Hunter Blagden Morgan Rennell JeanAndr Deluc Thompson Alessandro Volta Jesse Ramsden George Atwood Hatchett Hellins Howard vteThe Age Atheism Capitalism Civil liberties Critical thinking Deism Democracy Empiricism Encyclop distes Enlightened absolutism Free markets Haskalah Humanism rights Liberalism galit fraternit Methodological skepticism Nationalism Natural philosophy Objectivity Rationality Rationalism Reason Reductionism Sapere aude Science Scientific Socialism Universality Weimar Classicism ThinkersFrance Rond Alembert Louis Argenson Pierre Bayle Beaumarchais Nicolas Chamfort milie telet tienne Bonnot Condillac Marquis Condorcet Denis Diderot Bernard Bovier Fontenelle Claude Adrien Helv tius Baron Holbach Jaucourt Julien Offray Mettrie GeorgesLouis Leclerc Gabriel Mably Sylvain chal Meslier Montesquieu tienneGabriel Morelly ois Quesnay Guillaume Raynal Sade Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Voltaire Geneva Firmin Abauzit Bonnet JeanJacques Burlamaqui Delolme Rousseau AntoineJacques Roustan HoraceB dict Saussure Jacob Vernes Vernet Germany Justus Henning Boehmer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gottfried Herder Theodor Gottlieb Hippel Wilhelm Humboldt Immanuel Kant Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Christoph Lichtenberg Moses Mendelssohn Pufendorf Friedrich Schiller Christian Thomasius Wagner Felix Martin Wieland Wizenmann Wolff Greece Neophytos Doukas Theoklitos Farmakidis Rigas Feraios Theophilos Kairis Adamantios Korais Ireland Boyle Edmund Burke Toland Italy Cesare Beccaria Gaetano Filangieri Ferdinando Galiani Luigi Galvani Antonio Genovesi Francesco Mario Pagano Giovanni Salvemini Pietro Verri Netherlands Balthasar Bekker Pieter Petrus Cunaeus Hugo Grotius Hemsterhuis Christiaan Huygens Adriaan Koerbagh Frederik Leenhof Antonie Leeuwenhoek Nieuwentyt Baruch Spinoza Swammerdam Hendrik Wyermars Poland Tadeusz Czacki taj Stanis Konarski Ignacy Krasicki Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz August Poniatowski drzej niadecki Staszic zef Wybicki Andrzej uski Portugal Sebasti Carvalho Melo Romania BudaiDeleanu Dinicu Golescu Maior Samuil MicuKlein Gheorghe incai Russia Catherine II Ekaterina Dashkova Fonvizin Mikhail Kheraskov Lomonosov Nikolay Novikov Radishchev Spain Cadalso III Benito Jer nimo Feij Montenegro Leandro Fern ndez Morat Valentin Foronda Gaspar Melchor Jovellanos Sarmiento Diego Torres Villarroel Kingdom Scotland Addison Francis Bacon Beattie Jeremy Bentham Black Hugh Blair Boswell Burnett Lord Monboddo Anthony Collins Ferguson Gibbon Hooke David Hume Hutcheson Johnson Locke Millar Newton Ogilvie Price Reid Shaftesbury Dugald Stewart Wollstonecraft Madison Mason Paine vteSpeakers Provincial Wynne White Growdon Clark Lloyd Shippen Simcock Blunston Pemberton Trent Langhorne Biles Kinsey Wright Leech Fox Galloway Biddle Morton vteChief administrators University Ewing McDowell Andrews Beasley DeLancey Ludlow Vethake Goodwin Still Pepper Harrison Edgar Penniman Presidents Gates McClelland Stassen DuBarry acting Harnwell Myerson Hackney Fagin interim Rodin Gutmann present prior was [...]

William Franklin See also year old publicly acknowledged the existence of his son who was deemed illegitimate born out wedlock and raised him household. Humility [...]

In he was sent to England by the Pennsylvania Assembly colonial agent protest against political influence of family proprietors colony. push while t. of Pennsylvania Press [...]

Among his associates in France was Honor Gabriel Riqueti comte de Mirabeau French Revolutionary writer orator and statesman who early would elected president of the National Assembly. To understand this phenomenon more clearly Franklin conducted experiments. and again . Mary Morrillb [...]

He belonged to a gentleman s club which called the honest Whigs held stated meetings and included members such as Richard Price minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church who ignited Revolution Controversy Andrew Kippis. When his brother was jailed for three weeks in publishing material unflattering to governor young Franklin took newspaper and had Mrs. Bailyn Bernard [...]

Corrales N. Instead he would work on one and only each week leaving all others to their ordinary chance. During his stay France Benjamin Franklin was active Freemason serving Venerable Master of the Lodge Les Neuf urs from until. His efforts proved vital the American Revolution in securing shipments of crucial munitions from France. The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin [...]

Richardson February Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger first printed chart of the Gulf Stream Science vol. of Chicago Press [...]