Benjamin+Franklin

Bellis, Mary. "Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin and Electricity." __Benjamin Franklin and his Times__ 5. 26 Jan 2009 . http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/Ben_Franklin_4.htm
 * was born: January 17, 1706 in Boston on Milk Street. JA
 * he went in the printing business in philedelphia. JA
 * invented a method of casting type and making ink. JA
 * he had his own printing business at the age of 24. JA
 * he printed a pamphlet calling attention for paper money in Pennsylvania. JA
 * he invented the "Pensylvannia Gazette" then later renamed "The Saturday Evening Post". JA
 * in 1732 he published "Poor Richard's Almanac". JA
 * he kept a shop where he sold goods like: ink, tea, lottery tickets, maps, pictures, books, chocolate. JA
 * he got married in 1730 to a woman by the name of Debrah Read which became the shopkeeper. JA
 * at the age of 42, he was able to retire from active business and went to philosophical and scientific studies. JA
 * he invented the "Pennsylvania Fireplace" in 1749, which became the Franklin Stove. JA
 * he also invented the "bifocal spectacals". JA
 * In June of 1752, he performed his famous kite experiment, drawing down electricity and charging a Leyden jar. JA
 * the royal society awarded Franklin in1753 the Copley medal and with a complimentary address. JA
 * he established the first circulating library in Philadelphia. JA
 * Benjamin Franklin was elected colonel of the Philadelphia regiment. JA
 * he was the first secretary of the society and was elected president and served until his death. JA
 * in London was when Benjamin Franklin printed the first of his many pamplets. JA
 * Benjamin's boss, Samuel Keimer, declared bankruptcy, which then Franklin took over. JA
 * His greastest fame as a scientist was his discoveries over electricity. JA

"The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin." 1. 27 Jan 2009 .
 * in 1718, he joined an apprenticeship in his brothers shop. JA
 * at age 17, he left his family going to philidelphia. JA
 * 1724 he moved to london continuing his training in the printing business. JA
 * 1728 opened own shop in philidelphia. JA
 * 1731: his son William was born and Ben found the first Circulatory Library. JA
 * 1732: other son Francis was born. JA
 * 1737: appointed postmaster of philidelphia. JA
 * 1742: braught up the idea of the University of Pennsylvania. JA
 * 1743: his daughter Sarah was born. JA
 * 1745: Ben's dad died (Josiah Franklin). JA
 * 1747: organized first militia. JA
 * 1748: sold is shop and retired from his business. JA
 * 1757: His mother died (Albaha Folger Franklin). JA
 * 1757: first american fire insurance company. JA
 * 1769: Elected president American Philosophical Society. JA
 * 1774: heard that his wife has been killed. JA
 * 1775: elected into the Continental Congress
 * 1776: signs the Declaration of Independence. JA
 * 1778: signs treaty of alliance with France. JA
 * 1779: appointed minister to france. JA
 * http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/timeline/timeline.html

__Author__: Ralph Ketcham __Picture Credit__ : The National Portrait Gallery, London (top); The Granger Collection (next). __Bibliography__: Buxbaum, M.H., **Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin** (1987); Crane, Verner W., **Benjamin Franklin and a Rising People** (1954; repr. 1962); Franklin, Benjamin, **Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin**, ed. by L. W. Labaree et al. (1964); Hawke, David F., **Franklin** (1976); Ketcham, R. L., **Benjamin Franklin** (1965); Labaree, Leonard W., et al., eds., **The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, 27 vols. to date** (1959-1988); Lopez, Claude-Anne, and Herbert, E. W., **The Private Franklin** (1975); Van Doren, Carl, **Benjamin Franklin** (1938; repr. 1973); Wright, E., **Franklin of Philadelphia** (1986) and **Benjamin Franklin: His Life As He Wrote It** (1990). http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/FRANKLIN.HTM http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/FRANKLIN.HTM
 * he was born into a pious Puritan household. JA
 * he was a spokesman, a model for national character, and a "Founding Father". JA
 * father was a candlemaker and a skillful mechanic. JA
 * mother born on the land of Nantucket. JA
 * parents raised a household of 17 children. JA
 * his brother James was the printer of The New England Courant. JA
 * his favorite author was Joseph Addison. JA
 * in 1727, he organized a club of tradesman called the Junto. JA
 * in France 1752, he showed that lighting was a form of electricity. JA
 * he was elected French Academy of Sciences in 1772. JA
 * he led the military to the Lehigh Valley, building forts to protect the Frenach and Indian raider's. JA
 * form 1757-1762 he worked to pursuade the British officials. JA
 * form 1762-1764 he traveled through colonies reorganizing the American postal system. JA
 * his son william was appointed govenor of New Jersey in 1762. JA
 * he helped defend philidelphia when the pioneers threatened it's peace. JA
 * Franklin was stripped of his postmaster general's office in January 1774. JA
 * From April 1775 to October 1776, Franklin served on the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety. JA
 * in October 1776, he gained French aid for the Revolutionary War. JA
 * he bacame the first minister of France. JA
 * he resumed active roles in the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery in his 80th year. JA

"Benjamin Franklin ." (2000) 1. 29 Jan 2009 .
 * he is on the $100 bill. JA
 * in 1723, he made a little bit of money by selling books.JA
 * the govenor of philidelphia, encouraged Ben to go to london and buy a press and type to get information.JA
 * Ben never talked to his love Deborah so she married another guy and then he died. JA
 * Got married September 1730 and lived happy until her death in December 19, 1774. JA
 * the royal governors favored Ben's scheme to raise money to fight the French. JA
 * Franklin was sent over to Englandto plead the cause of of the assemlby before the Privy Assembly. JA
 * he recieved the degree of LL.D. from the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. JA
 * in 1776, he was sent to sure the aid and the cooperation of France in the war. JA
 * Franklin was one of the committee of five chosen by congress to draw up a document worthy of the Occasion. JA

"BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1706 - 1790." 1. 30 Jan 2009 . http://www.solarnavigator.net/inventors/benjamin_franklin.htm
 * he invented the flexible urinary catheter and the glass armonica. JA
 * the only founding father who is a signatory of all three of the major documents of the US. JA
 * he died weighing over 300 pounds. JA
 * October 1748 he was selected as a councilman, in June 1749 he became a Justice of the Peace. JA
 * Franklin is known to have played the violin, the harp, and the guitar and composed music. JA
 * after retired from the printing business, he went in business with a man named David Hill. JA
 * after he wrote the almanac, he printed "Father Abraham's Sermon," which turned to be very famous. JA
 * His son francis died of smallpox in the fall of 1736 and born 1732. JA
 * her daughter Sarah got married and took care of franklin as he got old.
 * Ben's wife Deborah did not tavel with him on the sea because the sea is her fear. JA

Josh Allison Mr. Shupp English 10 February 17, 2009 ** The Influences of the inventor Benjamin Franklin  ** Every country needs a person who can really stick out and who can be successful with their life. Many of Benjamin Franklin’s inventions influenced the American society today as proven by: the lighting rod, the Franklin stove, and the glass armonica. Benjamin Franklin became interested with electricity when he was in Boston in 1746, when he saw a few electrical experiments. A lot of people think that Benjamin Franklin invented electricity but he didn’t, he had discoveries of electricity. He used the method of the lightning rod to protect buildings from lightning. He received a metal called Royal Society’s Copley Medal in 1753 for the work and experiments he have done with electricity. Since Benjamin Franklin invented the lighting rod using his information about electricity, there are more inventions today then there were back in the day. Some of these inventions that have something to do with electricity that help us today are: the computer, the telephone, the microwave, the television, any of the game systems, and many others. Benjamin Franklin was the first to label the electrical fluid as positive and negative respectively and also the first to discover the principle of conversation of charge. An experiment that he ran that was really famous was when he flew his kite with a key tied to the end of the kite. He found a charge after the bolt hit the key and that’s when he found out the experiment worked. This experiment lead to the lighting rod by theorizing that lightning might be preventable by using an elevated iron rod connected to earth to empty static from a cloud. That’s when the idea of the lighting rod worked in a real experiment. Benjamin Franklin became interested in inventing the Franklin stove when most people in colonial America, warmed their homes by building a fire in a fireplace even though it was kind of dangerous and used a lot of wood. Benjamin Franklin disagreed with this unsafe method of heating. So he invented, in 1742, the cast-iron stove, or what he called the Pennsylvania Fireplace and we know today as the Franklin stove. This invention allowed people to warm their homes a whole lot safer and use less wood. Unfortunately, he invented the stove for the smoke to come out from the bottom. Since smoke rises, this made it impossible for his original stove to work properly. But the methods of the stove were better and safer anyways. This stove made it better for today because you don’t have to go out and get a lot of wood. The thing that was really courageous that he did was he declined the offer the Governor Thomas gave him for the stove and he said; he believed that people’s appreciation of his invention was better then any financial reward. This invention also warmed rooms and saved a whole lot of fuel, which means they spent less money on the stove. Franklin gave the plans and a model of his open stove to Mr. Robert Grace, one of his early friends, to manufacture. Grace had an iron-furnace and found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitable thing, as they were growing in demand. To encourage that demand, Ben wrote and published a pamphlet in 1744, called "An Account of the new-invented Pennsylvania Fireplaces"; in this Franklin described how the stove was to be constructed and operated, as well as its advantages over other methods of warming houses. This invention kept going on for many years and ever since then the stove kept getting more designed and more creative. So when it is winter time and you need a fireplace or something to keep you warm, I would have to prefer the Franklin stove. Benjamin Franklin became interested in his invention of the glass armonica when he attended a concert in England, in 1757, given on the wine glasses. He thought it was the sweetest sound he had ever heard but he wanted to hear more harmonies with his melody. The word armonica is the Italian word for harmony. It is said that if the harp is the, "the instrument of the Angels", then the Armonica is the, "the voice of the Angels". This instrument is and works just like an instrument that we use today and that is called a piano. This simple musical instrument was played by touching the edge of the spinning glass with dampened. This invention that Benjamin Franklin had is real huge success. This invention is still going on and more and more people are using it even in the 21st century. Benjamin Franklin loved playing his little invention, a matter a fact, he loved to play duets with his daughter, Sally, she on the harp and he on his "beloved Armonica." Out of all of his inventions he had, the armonica gave him the greatest joy. Also he wrote lyrics to a song called "My Plain Country Joan". While Benjamin Franklin was playing his armonica, he could also play other instruments: violin, cello, harp, and guitar. Out of all the music he played, Franklin loved to play Scottish songs as he felt their beauty lay in their simplicity. Ben Franklin and the Glass Armonica is an interdisciplinary program which brings life to Social Studies, Music and the Science Society. The armonica's beautiful tones appealed to many composers, including Mozart and Beethoven. Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the armonica has made a lot of instruments today and it helped bring out the melody and the harmony of the instruments.