Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanack was published by Benjamin Franklin continually from 1732 to 1758.

Glass lenses, for use as magnifiers or for starting fires, date to about 300 BC, but the first eyeglasses to aid or correct vision were almost certainly invented in 1280 in Florence, Italy by the Dominican friar Alessandro della Spina and / or his friend, the physicist Salvino degli Armati. Prescribed for far-sightedness, the glasses had convex lenses and were worn by Armati, who had injured his eyes while performing light refraction experiments and discovered that it was possible to enlarge the appearance of objects by looking through two pieces of convex glass.It was in the early fourteenth century that concave lenses were used to correct near-sightedness. In fact, Pope Leo X was depicted wearing glasses, with concave lenses, in a 1517 painting by Raphael. Whereas early eyeglasses were made of polished quartz, by the sixteenth century developments in glassmaking made it possible to mass produce them from glass. Bifocals, the combination of both concave and convex lenses for both types of vision correction, a top lens for distant viewing and a lower lens for reading, were developed around 1760 by the American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Banneker, a free black man, spent the majority of his life in Maryland: he was born in Baltimore County, and later lived in Ellicott's Mills (today known as Ellicott City). But he also lived and worked in the Capital District (today Washington DC), and he may also have lived and worked in Alexandria, Virginia.

When initially working together on the Declaration of Independence, they had a warm relationship. Over time, however, it soured. John Adams would eventually come to loathe Franklin. Adams would later describe his "relationship" with Franklin as such:

"That I have no friendship for Franklin I avow. That I am incapable of having any with a man of his moral sentiments I avow."

Simply put...he didn't much like him.

Benjamin Franklin suggested the concept of daylight savings time to citizens of Paris to conserve candles by rising earlier to use natural morning sunlight. However daylight savings time as we know it was brought forth by William Willett, who spent much of his life unsuccessfully lobbying for it in London.

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Benjamin Franklin BB rifles were made by Benjamin air rifle. The name Franklin was added as a marketing ploy. Walter Benjamin founded the company in 1899. Today Benjamin is owned by Crosman Airgun Corp. If you have any other questions then you need to state the model and condition of the rifle.

Benjamin Franklin was a founding father. He was a writter, inventor, and political activist. He was also the only man to have his face on U.S. currency that was not a president.

first tell us which problems we are talking about.

He was 7 pounds and 2oz . he was kinda small but his family loved him

I believe James Franklin was his brother... Benjamin was also his brother's apprentice in a printing press for a while until he ran away because James was said to have been jealous of Ben's fame for his once anonymous "Mrs. Silence Dogood" articles in his brother's newspaper.

Because he thought that the Bald Eagle was a coward
Ben Franklin thought that the bald eagle was a coward and a thief. He thought that the wild turkey should have been the national bird because of its bravery and nobility.

Yes he did have autistic characteristics as well as Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and Mozart among them-also had Asperger Syndrome. Some people also believe that Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Galileo, Pablo Picasso, Benjamin Franklin, Margaret Mead Marilyn Monroe and Aristotle had Asperger Syndrome.

You see their are different levels of autistim and if you know the level and the characteristic you will see that they do portray them.

A theory is that before their was no gluten in our food that's why an autistic person was able to live a much more "normal" life. That is yet to be proven however.

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.

Benjamin Franklin (who was not a US President) was born in Boston, MA. He ran away to Philadelphia when he was 17, and he's more strongly associated with that city as that's where he spent much of his adult life.

Ben Franklin was most definitely a politician!

He negotiated with the French to enlist their help in the American Revolution. After the war was over and the US didn't follow through on promises made to the French crown, he was able to convince them AGAIN to hep out the United States with other issues. If I could remember specifically what they were, I'd tell you. I'm not an historian!

He was the Ambassador to France. He signed the Declaration of Independence.

If he was important enough to be remembered for just these things alone, I'm sure he did a lot more as a politician as well.

If you are referring to Franklin's time spent in Philadelphia where I used to live, he worshipped at Christ Episcopal Church where Society Hill is located. He attended the same parish as George Washington did and Betsey Ross! You can still attend services at Christ Episcopal and see which pew Franklin sat. In

the graveyard, lies George Washington. I am not sure if Benjamin Franklin is buried there or not.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, an elder statesman, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence; however he was never a president. He was too old and in ill health by the time the Constitution was ratified and the United States government was set up.

Franklin was an American. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lived there until he was 17, then moved to Philadelphia. He was born when Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were British colonies. but lived to see the formation of the United States of America.

The 1959 Benjamin Franklin Half Dollar was minted in Philadelphia and Denver. The value depends on both the condition of the coin and where it was minted.

Philadelphia: $3.75 in good condition up to $69 in brilliant uncirculated.

Denver $3.75 in good condition up to $100 in uncirculated condition.

View the links below to view all the prices in-between for different coin conditions and grades.

Unfortunately, Franklin's original account of this experiment only stated that it had been done in Philadelphia, without any mention of where or when it was done, or even by whom. The only statement that Franklin did so came 15 years after the fact from Joseph Priestley, a close friend who claimed to be writing down the verbal account of Franklin's. Priestley stated that Ben, when deciding to do the experiment, chose "to take a walk in the fields, in which there was a shed convenient for his purpose." This could have been just about anywhere in the Philadelphia area.

Strongly built, rounded like a swimmer or a wrestler, not angular like a runner, he was five feet nine or ten inches tall, with a large head and square, deft hands. His hair was blond or light brown, his eyes grey, full, and steady, his mouth wide and humorous with a pointed upper lip. His clothing was as clean as it was plain.

Membership in the Society of Freemasons was very common about the time of the Revolution and among America's forefathers/founding fathers. Masons

He was 70 years old at the time.

Moral perfection is outlined in the writing contained in his Autobiography, in which Franklin seeks to attain his own moral perfection by mastering the thirteen virtues he deemed most prudent and important. These virtues include temperance, industry, and chastity. More information on the thirteen virtues and achieving Franklin's moral perfection can be found in the related links.