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    The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer...
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    wood-burning stove. Benjamin Franklin designed the "Pennsylvania fireplace" in 1740, which incorporated the fundamental concepts of the heating stove. The Franklin...
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    numerous important inventions include the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove. He founded many civic organizations, including the Library Company...
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    member, 1941–43, rescued potbelly stoves for use in air-raid defense posts Franklin stove List of stoves Red Cross stove Gove PB (editor in chief) (1981)...
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    A wood-burning stove (or wood burner or log burner in the UK) is a heating or cooking appliance capable of burning wood fuel, often called solid fuel...
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  • credit for his stoves which succeeded Benjamin Franklin's much larger Franklin stove. In 1980 there were a small number of antique stove restorers but...
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    Francis Folger Franklin (October 20, 1732 – November 21, 1736) was the son of Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read...
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    stoves are commonly used for cooking and heating food in developing countries. EcoZoom Electric stove Foot stove Franklin stove – wood-burning stove designed...
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    also invented a cast iron stove, also known as the Rumford stove, which competed successfully with the famous Franklin stove. Both devices gave much more...
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  • 263, 1993, pp. 5–13. David Stove – Obituaries Australia – Australian National University Franklin, James (2002). "Stove's discovery of the worst argument...
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  • Air-tight stove Brazier Bukhari (heater) Franklin stove Hibachi - Japanese traditional heater Kanger Rocket stove Space heater Wood-burning stove Flora Annie...
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    contend with the pacifist position of the Quakers. In 1740 he invents the Franklin stove, refusing a patent on the device because it was for "the good of the...
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    American genius, like 'Sophisticated Lady' by Duke Ellington or the Franklin stove." The real Owl Creek Bridge is in Tennessee. Bierce likely changed the...
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    Dortch Stove Works is an historic stove manufacturing plant in Franklin, Tennessee. It was built in 1929 by Allen Manufacturing Company, then based in...
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  • in Center City Philadelphia. Founded as a library in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, the Library Company of Philadelphia has accumulated one of the most significant...
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    Poor Richard's Almanack (category Works by Benjamin Franklin)
    that he revenged himself on his native town by saddling it with the Franklin stove, and that he discovered the almanac, and that a penny saved is a penny...
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  • Benjamin Franklin is a 2002 American documentary television series about United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin which premiered November 19–20...
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    design in 1846. The squat stoves were very popular by the 1870s and were much smaller than Benjamin Franklin's Franklin stove. John Hazlehurst Boneval...
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  • pendulum – Léon Foucault Francis turbine – James B. Francis Franklin stove – Benjamin Franklin Fresnel lens – Augustin-Jean Fresnel Friedrichs condenser...
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    The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative effort by a team of scholars at Yale University, American Philosophical Society and others who have...
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  • Ben and Me (book) (category Books about Benjamin Franklin)
    Franklin, hiding in his fur cap to secretly whisper advice in his ear. The book humorously recounts the invention of the Franklin stove, Franklin's kite...
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    several years' use. The Franklin stove was developed in the United States by Benjamin Franklin. More a manufactured fireplace than a stove, it had an open front...
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    along with inventions such as Henry Ford's Model T and Benjamin Franklin's Franklin stove, as one of the top 100 best-designed mass-produced products, the...
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  • Ben Franklin in Paris is a musical with a book and lyrics by Sidney Michaels, and music by Mark Sandrich, Jr. with two songs contributed by Jerry Herman...
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  • ploughing engine Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), U.S. – the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica Herman...
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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...
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    to open access. Benjamin Franklin was an early contributor eventually donating all his inventions including the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning...
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    Silence Dogood (category Benjamin 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...
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  • lifting tower, newspaper, grenade musket, lightning rod, bifocals, and Franklin stove. Early attempts at building a practical electrical telegraph were hindered...
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  • 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...
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