(1706 - 90) famous
American statesman, scientist and
philosopher.
(1706 - 1790) famous
American statesman, scientist and
philosopher.
(1706 - 1790) famous
American statesman, scientist and
philosopher. Franklin was the
deputy postmaster
general of the
American colonies from 1753 - 1774. Although the
Saturday Evening Post has Benjamin Franklin on its logo, the only connection of this
magazine and Benjamin Franklin is that it was begun in the building and with some of the
equipment of the defunct
Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper which was edited by Franklin 1729 - 1748.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), patriot,
diplomat, author, printer, scientist and inventor of the eighteenth century. His
picture appears on the United
States one-hundred dollar
bill.
(1706-1790) a famous
American statesman, author, printer and scientist of the eighteenth century. In the 1720s, Franklin established a printing
business,
producing Pennsylvania's paper
currency and writing various publications. As a scientist, he made important contributions to
knowledge and was the first to prove that lightning was
electrical through an experiment employing a metal
key attached to a kite string. In a storm, lightning struck the kite (which had a metal
tip) and traveled down to the
key, which then emitted
sparks. Later, in 1775, when the
American Revolution started, Franklin went to
work assisting the
American colonies, taking
charge of printing new paper
money and helping to
draft the
Declaration of Independence. During the signing ceremony he is said to have remarked, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." He also helped compose and was a signatory of the
Constitution of the United
States.