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Benjamin Franklin
This category is for questions about the multi-talented Benjamin Franklin, who managed to be a scientist, politician, and just about everything in-between.
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Importance of learning history?
Understanding WHY things happened, so as not to repeat the same mistakes. Understanding why certain attitudes exist (eg. Britain hating the French).
Who was on the US 100 dollar bill before Benjamin Franklin?
Many different portraits appeared on US $100 bills before Franklin. Among others:
1869 US Notes: Abraham Lincoln
1870 Gold Certificates: Senator Thomas Hart Benton (grandfather of the painter)
1878 Silver Certificates: James Monroe
1890 Treasury Notes: Admiral David Farragut
Franklin's portrait was placed on $100 Federal Reserve Notes in 1914. Since then no other person or image has been used.
How did Benjamin Franklin make the colonists lives better?
Franklin began publishing almanac's in 1733 that reviewed weather, recipes, and future predictions etc. He contributed to projects that would help pave, clean, and provide light to the streets of Philadelphia. He launched a library company, the first learned society in America, the Philadelphia's Union Fire Company, the Philadelphia Contribution for Insurance Against Loss by Fire, and formed the Pennsylvania Hospital. He also invented the first heat efficient stove to help heat up houses, swim fins, glass armonia (music instrument), and bifocals. Franklin was also one of the main activists for America's independence from England and helped write the Declaration of Independence.
What idea did Benjamin Franklin have in 1784 to change the clocks?
He got the idea from the war. He also invented the day light savings time!!!!!=)
Why an ounce prevention is worth a pound of cure?
This refers to it's easier to take steps to be healthy before an illness, than the cure necessary to get well after already becoming sick.
What did Benjamin Franklin get in trouble for when he was young?
His brother James was upset with Ben Franklin when he realized that Ben Franklin had been posing as a middle-aged widow writing a column for the paper.
about 1953 2002 Values book lists $350 Good, $450 Very Good, $550 Excellent. Today's values are higher. 2002 Values book lists $350 Good, $450 Very Good, $550 Excellent. Today's values are higher.
How Benjamin Franklin contributed to the new world?
Benjamin Franklin created electricity by using a kite and a pole. Don't get him confused with Thomas Edison who created the light bulb. People do that often. This is how he contributed to the new world.
Why is ben Franklin important?
He was the colonies' ambassador to France and convinced the French government to fight alongside the Americans against the British. He published pro-American books and a newspaper. He served on the Continental Congress. He was instrumental in the planning of our system of government. He was one of the Founding Fathers and one of the American representatives signing the Treaty of Versailles.
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers and a genius. He was the colonies' ambassador to France and convinced the French government to fight alongside the Americans against the British. He published pro-American books and a newspaper. He served on the Continental Congress. He was instrumental in the planning of our system of government. He was one of the Founding Fathers and one of the American representatives signing the Treaty of Versailles.
Benjamin Franklin was a successful, impressive, and inspiring politician, statesman, author, publisher, scientist, and philosopher. He was one of the Founding Fathers and actually came up with the system of government outlined in the Constitution.
It would take practically forever to list all of his accomplishments and impacts, but some are as follows:
- inventing bi-focal glasses
- inventing the glass armonica (a musical instrument)
- serving in the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
- serving as America's first postmaster
- inventing the Franklin Stove
- inventing the lightning rod and not getting a patent, so as to make them affordable
- proving lightning electricity which can be harnessed via his kite and key experiment (a risk to his life)
- starting a lending library and fire station
- publishing Poor Richard's Almanac and the Pennsylvania Gazette
- serving as the first American ambassador to France and persuading the French to join with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War
Basically, he helped us win the Revolution and establish a governemnt afterward, improved and/or saved the lives of many people, laid the electrical groundwork out for most all scientific advancements to date.
Aside from being an inventor and a poster-child for economic individualism, he was also a brilliant statesman and was one of the most instrumental people in crafting the United States' early treaties.
one answer:
In laboratories or anywhere that has an open space, clean facility, sinks, and a big table to perform or observe experiments. Also, many scientists teach, so you will find them at universities.
another answer:
Depending on the field of science, you will find them anywhere...in jungles, deserts, snow country, under the sea, in the air, in space, or anywhere their curiosity takes them or humanity has needs for information.
What is Ben Burnley's middle name?
Benjamin Jackson Burnley would be his full given name Dreamy isn't it.
Which one of the Founding Fathers was the smartest?
Alexander Hamilton, by far. Aside from authoring most of the Federalist papers, as Treasury Secretary under Washingtion, he virtually created every part of government for the new republic from scratch.
Hamilton is beyond brilliant. There is an outstanding biography from Ron Chernow that documents a mind that rises above some very stiff competition.
What was Ben Franklin education?
Benjamin Franklin went to school for only two years, ending at age 10. Nevertheless, through reading voraciously, he became one of the most knowledgeable men of his time, and a noted author, scientist and inventor as well as one of the colonies' greatest statesmen.
Books were so expensive at that time that Franklin could not afford to buy more than a few. At age 21, Franklin formed the Junto, a group of young craftsmen and artisans like himself who wanted to discuss the political, scientific and other issues of the day. The members of the Junto contributed their books to a common library so that each member could read all of the others' books, but still the collection was small. Franklin solved the problem of books being too expensive for any one of them to buy by creating a "subscription library" in which each member would contribute a little money to a common fund to buy books that they could then all read. This library flourished and grew larger and larger, providing a rare opportunity for self-education. Franklin's creation still exists as the Library Company of Philadelphia, a scholarly research library.
No. They were all very religious men, although in different ways. Some of them came from states with established religions and thought that was a proper way for a state to be run, but would have wanted the federal government out of the matter. They all saw religion as the source of righteousness and virtue and felt it was impossible to maintain a civilized society, much less a free republic, without the individual virtues engendered by religion.
