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... hundred years . His English wife had died , leaving him seven children , and he had married a colonial girl , Abiah Folger , whose father , Peter Folger , was a man of some note in early Massachusetts . Josiah Franklin was fifty - one ...
... hundred years . His English wife had died , leaving him seven children , and he had married a colonial girl , Abiah Folger , whose father , Peter Folger , was a man of some note in early Massachusetts . Josiah Franklin was fifty - one ...
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... hundred pound , it is more easy to get the second , ' money itself being of a prolific nature . " He gave much unpaid public service and subscribed generously to public purposes ; yet he was able , at the early age of forty - two , to ...
... hundred pound , it is more easy to get the second , ' money itself being of a prolific nature . " He gave much unpaid public service and subscribed generously to public purposes ; yet he was able , at the early age of forty - two , to ...
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... hundreds of questions in a dozen different branches of science . He studied smoky chimneys ; he invented bifocal spectacles ; he studied the effect of oil upon ruffled water ; he identified the " dry bellyache " as lead poisoning ; he ...
... hundreds of questions in a dozen different branches of science . He studied smoky chimneys ; he invented bifocal spectacles ; he studied the effect of oil upon ruffled water ; he identified the " dry bellyache " as lead poisoning ; he ...
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... hundred miles in- specting postal affairs , but in 1764 he was again sent to England to renew the petition for a royal government for Pennsylvania , which had not yet been granted . Presently that petition was made obsolete by the Stamp ...
... hundred miles in- specting postal affairs , but in 1764 he was again sent to England to renew the petition for a royal government for Pennsylvania , which had not yet been granted . Presently that petition was made obsolete by the Stamp ...
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... hundred of his letters , written after this time , have been preserved . These letters show no retrospec- tion , no looking backward . They never mention " the good old times . " As long as he lived , Frank- lin looked forward . His ...
... hundred of his letters , written after this time , have been preserved . These letters show no retrospec- tion , no looking backward . They never mention " the good old times . " As long as he lived , Frank- lin looked forward . His ...
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afterwards Albany American balloon became began Benjamin Franklin better boat Boston Boulton and Watt brothers built Canal CHAPTER Charles Goodyear chine Clermont cloth colonies Colt Congress cotton gin Curtiss discovery Dwight Goddard dynamo early Edison electricity Eli Whitney England experiments factory farm father flying Haven Henry Howe's hundred idea improved industry invention inventor James Watt John Stevens labor Langley later light Livingston locomotive London Lowell machinery manufacture mechanical ment miles Miller mills Morse motor newspapers Oliver Evans partners Patent Act Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced profits railway reaper Robert Fulton rubber Samuel Samuel Colt SAMUEL F. B. MORSE says sewing machine sold soon South spinning steam engine steamboat story success telegraph thousand dollars tion took turn United Washington Whitney's wings wire Wright York young