Happy Birthday

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Happy Birthday
January 6, 1706

• Benjamin Franklin!!

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Ben retired from the publishing business in 1748,
with a purchase agreement that paid him ½ of the
business profits for the next 18 years!
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Library Company 1731 To pour forth benefit for
common good is divine
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1736 an ounce of prevention is worth a pound
of cure
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1737 Ben became Postmaster for British Colonies
until fired by British at beginning of
Revolution a substantial income for Ben and many
family members for most of Bens adult life!!
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1743 Fire Insurance Company this seal showed
property owner was member
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early 1740s, Ben and friend designed and built
a substitute for firplace
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later changed design to a chimney flue to avoid
smoke in room and to move stove to middle of the
room
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Published before Albany Conference, circa 1747,
due to threats from Indians and French in
western PA ( near Lancaster!)
Ben also raised a Pennsylvania Militia of 10,000
men, financed by a lottery, because the PA
Legislature couldnt raise the money!
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Circa 1745 Ben observed flow patterns during
numerous trips across Atlantic Ocean
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Static electricity parlor games between 1743
and 1749
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Bens experiment conducted in 1752
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financed by matching funds private
government
Pennsylvania Hospital - 1751
University of Pennsylvania formed as the
academy, also in 1751
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1759 St. Andrews, Scotland University awarded
Honorary Doctorate Degree and city named him
Burgher
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1761
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1774
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..on the bald eagle Turkey would be better!
e pluribus unum Suggested in 1776 as motto for
the new nation
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Ben in France public image as a country bumpkin!!
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1783 Ben certified experiment to Royal Society
Ben recommended hydrogen French preferred hot air
Ben saw as science for fun! A use will come later!
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perfected in 1784 while in France, also served
on a commission to investigate mesmerizing
(animal magnetism as healing device)
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on slavery

• Ben owned and sold slaves but released them
  before the Revolutionary War
• 1760 10 of Phila. Population was slave!
• 1787 Ben became President of PA Society for
  Promotion of Abolition of Slavery
• 1790 Bens last official act in Congress was to
  petition for abolition of slavery
• (700,000 of 4 million population was slave)

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• The Body ofB. FranklinPrinterLike the Cover
  of an old Book,Its Contents torn out,And stript
  of its Lettering and Gilding,Lies here, Food for
  Worms.But the Work shall not be whlly lostFor
  it will, as he believ'd, appear once more,In a
  new more perfect Edition,Corrected and
  AmendedBy the Author.He was born on January 6,
  1706.Died 17
• His gravestone would simply read
• BENJAMINAndDEBORAH FRANKLIN1790

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Bens Last Will and Testament

• 2000 pounds ()to Boston and Philadelphia
• In 1890, spend 100,000 pounds on public projects
• In 1990, distribute balance for public projects
• Boston 5 million to Franklin Institute of
  Technology
• Philadelphia 2.3 to Franklin Institute,
  scholarships, libraries, fire houses, grant to
  h.s. group for experimental electric car which
  won national contest
• God is very good to us let us show our sense
  of his goodness to us by continuing to do good to
  our fellow creatures

20,000 mourners attended Bens funeral
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Franklin Court site in Philadelphia