d. Therefore, Franklin is a writer, printer, publisher, scientist, philanthropist, and diplomat.
Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
Evaluation
• “Franklin was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.”
The Representative of American Enlightenment:
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• If you would not be forgotten , as soon as you are dead & rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
A scientist
philanthropist
diplomat
Benjamin Franklin (17061790) His contributions
• His Contributions to Society a. Pennsylvania Hospital; b. America’s first circulating library in Philadephia; c. University of Pennsylvania; d. American Philosophical Society; e. the postal system.
Benjamin Franklin (17061790)
• His Contributions to Science
a. Inventions : Franklin stove, effective street lighting, bifocal glasses, a miniature printing press, efficient heating devices and even a strange musical instrument called an “armonica”玻璃口琴.
politician, public-spirited citizen, prose writer
He was the only
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• America has never forgotten Benjamin Franklin because he did both.
• Today, we honor Franklin as one of the Founding Fathers and as one of America’s greatest citizens.
b. He conducted the difficult negotiations with France that brought financial and military support for America in the war.
c. He was a delegate to the conversation that wrote the Constitution.
• “The Scottish philosopher David Hume called him America’s “first great man of letters”.”
★ He appears on the American 100 dollar bill.
Franklin on U.S. Postage
• Benjamin Franklin has been honored on US Postage stamps many times
Franklin’s Kite Experiment
d. He was one of the first men to study and map the Gulf Stream(墨西哥湾流) .
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• His Contributions to the U.S.
a. He supported the cause of independence, served in the Continental Congress, and aided Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence.
founded a
Peace with England,
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the great man of letters
Autobiography
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Poor Richard’s Almalin (1706-1790)
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organized the
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The Treaty of
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b. And for his lightning-rod, he was called “the new Prometheus who had stolen fire from heaven.”
c. the theories of electricity; first applied the terms “positive” and “negative” to electrical charges.