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29 de ago. de 2020 · Revealing portrait of the Revolutionary War leader and self-educated Renaissance man, renowned as a scientist, inventor, writer, philosopher, statesman, and ...
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11 de jul. de 2011 · Biography of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin lived an industrious life from 1706 to 1790. He made important contributions in many areas, including inventing bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, the lightning rod, and suggesting daylight saving time. Franklin held several political roles and helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
19 de mai. de 2021 · Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant. by D.G. Hart. Read. 1 The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood. 2 Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius: the Boston Years by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot. 3 The Puritans: A Transatlantic History by David D. Hall. 4 The Enlightenment in America by Henry May.
In colonial America, Benjamin Franklin began a similar experiment in 1771 and completed it in 1790. At first, he called this work his Memoirs . The label of Autobiography was given to the text (or series of texts) retrospectively, once that genre was firmly established.
Though Mr. Franklin is long gone, his legacy lives on; take a look at those hundred dollar bills in your pocket and you’ll see the man this short biography is about. Early years Benjamin “Ben” Franklin was born in the bustling seaport city of Boston, Massachusetts, in the English colony of America on January 17, 1706, on Milk Street.
19 de jan. de 2024 · Born on January 17, 1706, to a poor English chandler (a candle and soap maker) living in Boston, Franklin was the 15th of 17 children. Franklin left school at 10 and began an apprenticeship in his ...
Designed by Franklin and made by the women of Philadelphia. The officers of the companies composing the Philadelphia regiment, being met, chose me for their colonel; but, conceiving myself unfit ...
