Scenes from the Life of Benjamin FranklinSmall, Maynard, 1916 - 83 страници |
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... electricity , drafting , naval architecture , machine design , pharmacy , automobile engines and steam engineering . The average age of the stu- dents enrolled has been over twenty - five years , several years the senior of the ...
... electricity , drafting , naval architecture , machine design , pharmacy , automobile engines and steam engineering . The average age of the stu- dents enrolled has been over twenty - five years , several years the senior of the ...
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... about its genuineness . 15. The Lawrence Scientific School , Cambridge , contains an electric machine given to Harvard College by Franklin . 16. In the library of the Masonic Temple , Boston [ PAGE 7 ] FRANKLIN THE BOY.
... about its genuineness . 15. The Lawrence Scientific School , Cambridge , contains an electric machine given to Harvard College by Franklin . 16. In the library of the Masonic Temple , Boston [ PAGE 7 ] FRANKLIN THE BOY.
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... electric dynamo , now in the custody of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania . Leyden jars , such as Franklin used in his experiments , are also on the bookshelves . Pinned on the wall between window and stove model is the cover of Frank ...
... electric dynamo , now in the custody of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania . Leyden jars , such as Franklin used in his experiments , are also on the bookshelves . Pinned on the wall between window and stove model is the cover of Frank ...
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... electricity was becoming very interesting to all the world , although not even the most learned " philosophers " suspected the smallest part of what it would later mean to mankind . In 1746 a Dr. Spencer came to Boston , lecturing on ...
... electricity was becoming very interesting to all the world , although not even the most learned " philosophers " suspected the smallest part of what it would later mean to mankind . In 1746 a Dr. Spencer came to Boston , lecturing on ...
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... electric shock , and roasted by the electric jack before a fire kindled by the electrical bottle , when the healths of all the famous electricians in England , Holland , France and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers under ...
... electric shock , and roasted by the electric jack before a fire kindled by the electrical bottle , when the healths of all the famous electricians in England , Holland , France and Germany are to be drank in electrified bumpers under ...
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affairs Almanac American apprentice Arthur Lee ballads bart bedchamber Benjamin Franklin Britain building Charles Collinson colonel colonies colonists Company of Philadelphia Congress Continental Congress Courant court Declaration of Independence Duke Edward electric England experiment famous France Franklin says FRANKLIN SIGNING Franklin Union Franklin wrote friends Gazette George Grenville Governor Guadenhut Hall humor hundred Indians Inhabitants James Franklin Jefferson Keimer King King's King's counsel kite letters Leyden jar liberty Library Company lightning London Marquis Massachusetts master Mills ministry newspaper Old State House paper Paris Parliament Passy Pennsylvania Philadelphia philosopher Poor Richard's Poor Richard's Almanac portrait of Franklin prentice printer printing office regiment of foot repeal Richard Richard Bache Right Honourable Robert Rockingham secretary ship Silas Deane silk Stamp Act stand Street Temple Franklin thousand Pounds tion to-day Townshend treasurer treaty of alliance William William Temple Franklin
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Страница xiii - Boston then lay out, at their discretion, one hundred thousand pounds in public works which may be judged of most general utility to the inhabitants, such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, public buildings, baths, pavements, or whatever may make living in the town more convenient to its people, and render it more agreeable to strangers resorting thither for health or a temporary residence.
Страница 65 - That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
Страница 50 - But an internal tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Страница 22 - At the time I established myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the Colonies to the southward of Boston.
Страница 19 - We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised, besides pay and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually serv'd out to them, half in the morning, and the other half in the evening; and I observed they were as punctual in attending to receive it; upon which I said to Mr.
Страница xii - I have considered that, among artisans, good apprentices are most likely to make good citizens, and, having myself been bred to a manual art, printing, in my native town, and afterwards assisted to set up my business in Philadelphia by kind loans of money from two friends there, which was the foundation of my fortune, and of all the utility in life that may be ascribed to me, I wish to be useful even after my death, if possible, in forming and advancing other young men, that may be serviceable to...
Страница 29 - I endeavored to make it both entertaining and useful, and it accordingly came to be in such demand, that I reaped considerable profit from it, vending annually near ten thousand.
Страница 82 - It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
Страница 40 - Make a small cross of two light strips of cedar, the arms so long as to reach to the four corners of a large thin silk handkerchief when extended...