The American Mercury Volume. Bequest Franklin bequeathed about time or dollars each to cities of Boston and Philadelphia trust gather interest for years. Olson Lester C [...]

Lavoisier . Imitate Jesus and Socrates. Traction kiting Though Benjamin Franklin has been most noted kitewise with his lightning experiments he also by many for using kites to pull humans and ships across waterways [...]

The Grand Convention pp. Spies and Scouts Secret Writing Sympathetic Citizens. Constitutional Convention. Franklin conceived the idea of subscription library which would pool funds members to buy books for all read [...]

Their argument against slavery was backed by Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society and its president Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge Riverside [...]

Takes position midway between H Lawrence brutal denunciation of Franklin religion as nothing more than bourgeois commercialism tricked out shallow utilitarian moralisms and Owen Aldridge sympathetic treatment dynamism protean character polytheistic . Chastity. A History of the University Pennsylvania from Its Foundation . Retrieved September . The main character leaves smallish amount of money his will five lots livres to collect interest over two three four or full centuries with resulting astronomical sums be spent impossibly elaborate utopian projects [...]

When his brother was jailed for three weeks in publishing material unflattering to governor young Franklin took newspaper and had Mrs. Then during three or four Days Consideration put down under different Heads short Hints of Motives that Times occur to for against Measure [...]

Science and Society Medal commemorating Charles Robert balloon ascent Paris . Chapter The History of Essex Hall by Mortimer Rowe . Historiography Waldstreicher David ed [...]

Franklin as journalist Legacy Court Benjamin House Institute of Technology National Memorial awards medal Royal Society Arts Depicted The Apotheosis Washington statue . Armonicists Debate Source of Beethoven Maladies [...]

The Weather Doctor. Leo Lemay . The evangelical revivalists who were active midcentury such as Franklin friend and preacher George Whitefield greatest advocates of religious freedom claiming liberty conscience to inalienable right every rational creature [...]

His pervasive influence the early history of nation has led being jocularly called only President United States who was never . In the year ceased writing for Almanack printed Father Abraham Sermon also known Way to Wealth [...]

Mary Morrillb. Trouble in the Colonial Melting Pot. Bedford St. Joint appointments were standard at the time for political reasons [...]

Eclipsed By Storm. After his return to the colony Franklin led antiproprietary party struggle against Penn family and was elected Speaker of Pennsylvania House May. Firesign Theater quote meant humorously but poignantly [...]