Franklin's electrostatic machine is a high-voltage static electricity-generating device used by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century for research...

who was Franklin's only surviving, legitimate child. In 1772, Franklin's sister Jane Franklin Mecom wrote him with news of his grandsons. Franklin replied...

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An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and...

Catherine Allan and Jerry Richman accepted the award.[citation needed] Franklin's first 47 years, a period that saw the birth of the Enlightenment. He took...

the 250 anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. Franklin's electrostatic machine Lightning rod "Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky"...

"touching a doorknob after walking across carpet in dry weather". Franklin's electrostatic machine Cohen, Paul S.; Cohen, Brenda H. (1998). America's Scientific...

the elder Franklin's plans. To regain the upper hand, he offers to marry Diane, but she rejects him. Knowing he faces death by hanging, Franklin nevertheless...

alternative type of electrostatic motor is the spacecraft electrostatic ion drive thruster where forces and motion are created by electrostatically accelerating...

the sources used to cover Franklin's life, Franklin biographer Henry Brands has maintained that the major source for Franklin's life among historians are...

another librarian was found to replace him, Benjamin Franklin took over his duties. Franklin's stint as librarian ended in 1734, when he was replaced...

electric sparks. Small Van de Graaff machines are produced for entertainment, and for physics education to teach electrostatics; larger ones are displayed in...

Historian Walter Isaacson writes that Franklin's theory was empirically based on the population data during his day. Franklin's reasoning was essentially correct...

Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-8716-9895-7. Bache, Richard Meade (1900). Franklin's ceremonial...

Benjamin Franklin's own writings", the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1918. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "The Pulitzer...

the lamps and maintaining them. As early as the 1750s, inventor Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia introduced innovations in oil lamp design, such as using...

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Pennsylvania. Founded in 1749 by a group of local notables that included Benjamin Franklin, the Academy of Philadelphia began as a private secondary school, occupying...

related exhibits. This appropriation commemorates the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth on January 17, 1706. In 2008, the Memorial underwent a $3.8 million...

slave named Bob. Franklin later arranged an appointment for Bache, as the US Postmaster General (1776–1782), to succeed him. After Franklin's death in 1790...

September 25 the Continental Congress ordered commissioners, led by Benjamin Franklin, to seek a treaty with France based upon Adams draft treaty that had later...

Franklin's, so that Watson misinterpreted his ideas as being similar to Franklin's. In any case, there was no animosity between Watson and Franklin,...

by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was after...

America in 1776. It is often illustrated with Franklin's famous snake cartoon Join, or Die. Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite the colonies exceeded the scope...

Jefferson could not serve, and Arthur Lee was appointed in his stead. With Franklin's arrival in France on November 29, 1776—the first anniversary of the founding...

engineers, inventors, and industrialists—all of whom reflect Benjamin Franklin's spirit of curiosity, ingenuity, and innovation". Some of the noted past...

Society) and was incorporated in 1789. At some point after 1785, Benjamin Franklin was elected as the organization's president. The society asked him to bring...

Benjamin Franklin Parkway, commonly abbreviated to Ben Franklin Parkway and colloquially called the Parkway, is a boulevard that runs through the cultural...

Pennsylvania however suspected Franklin of duplicity. To offset malicious partisan speculations and attacks over Franklin's involvement in the passage of...

The second USS Franklin of the United States Navy was an 8-gun brig. She was named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Built at Philadelphia in 1795...