Benjamin Franklin found a nantucket whaling captin's map furnished the answer. Going against the Gulf stream ships sailed West up to 110 km oer day...
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It led to find out what everyone has been trying to figure out... Why did he do we don't know why he did it, do you?
Benjamin Franklin is known for many different things. Some of these discoveries and inventions include the lightning rod, the glass armonica, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and a flexible catheter.
Two useful and well known inventions of Benjamin Franklin include the Franklin stove and the lightening rod. Also, Ben Franklin invented the glass harmonica and bifocals.
As a colonial postmaster, Franklin was responsible for ensuring that packages were promptly sent between England and its American colonies. When people asked why packages took so much longer to get from London to Philadelphia than the other way around, Franklin had an experienced sea captain, Tim Folger, map out ocean currents. Although this work done by Franklin resulted in the naming of the "Gulf Stream" and its first accurate mapping, he did not discover this current.
Because he wanted to change the world. To make it a safer and better place to live. His face is on the hundred dollar bill because of his contributions to the society or, the uh community. He built the lending library, the fire department, the hospital, and many other useful and helpful things. Including the bulkhead, Mapping of the Gulf Stream and other things I don't have time to mention in this. He was born in the early 1700s, on Milk St.
It was not as put together as today's computer generated maps.
Benjamin Franklin was the first to map the gulf stream.
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Benjamin Franklin was curious about postal routes.
Benjamin Franklin is known for many different things. Some of these discoveries and inventions include the lightning rod, the glass armonica, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and a flexible catheter.
Electricity; he invented the lightning rod. Metals; he developed a more efficient stove. Printing; he ran a printing shop for many years. Oceanography; Franklin was the first person to map the Gulf Stream. Astronomy; his almanac was superb. Timekeeping; his description of the cycle of leap years was outstanding. Benjamin Franklin was a "polymath"; he was a genius, and studied everything around him.
heavy particles that move along the bottom of the stream.
Invented bifocal glasses.- Mapped the Gulf Stream. - Quipped several well-known turns of phrase in "Poor Richard's Almanac."
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Two useful and well known inventions of Benjamin Franklin include the Franklin stove and the lightening rod. Also, Ben Franklin invented the glass harmonica and bifocals.