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Benjamin Franklin was an active inventor all his adult life. One of the most famous of his many inventions was the Franklin stove. Houses in his time were poorly heated by drafty open fireplaces. Franklin's stove stood in the fireplace, but its grate extended out into the room. This heater cast warmth in all directions. As Franklin said, the stove prevented a person "being scorched before, and, as it were, froze behind."
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At age forty-two, Benjamin Franklin moved his family to a house that would provide him a laboratory, small shop, and library. He decided to devote his considerable talents solely to science…and for ten years he did. With the American Revolution twenty-five years away, these were, by far, the best years of his life.
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Benjamin Franklin House will be participating in this year’s National Archaeology Week (NAW). The fit is perfect given the House’s architectural significance and archaeological importance (with more than 1000 bones found during basement conservation, remnants of an anatomy school run by the son-in-law of Franklin’s landlady). For nine days in July, children from across the UK will take part in excavations, guided tours, exhibitions, lectures, craft workshops and more.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is best known for being one of the founding fathers of the United States, acting as elder statesman at the Constitutional Convention, and helping to draft the Declaration of Independence. He's ... known for exercising freedom of the press to the hilt, and as the brains behind one of the most successful 'zines of all time, Poor Richard's Almanack. You know, where the "A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned" stuff comes from. But what a lot of Americans don't know is that good old Ben actually lived in London from 1757 to 1775, when he served as a representative of the American colonies to the British Parliament. While he was there, he lived with Mrs. Margaret Stevenson, a widow who rented him the upper rooms of her house. Mrs. Stevenson and her daughter, Polly, became like a second family to Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin was held in high esteem by scientists, diplomats and religious leaders alike. In fact, when he died, a group that included an array of clergy from church representatives of different faiths, formed a procession and passed in front of his house to honor him and his wishes that people of all faiths be brothers and sisters. In ironic contrast to that wonderful display of unity, before he died, he and his ideas were often criticized and rejected - even by those he tried to help bring peace, understanding & tolerance to.
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Franklin's lodged at Little Britain, and, being without any money promised by Governor Keith, worked for Palmer's printing-house, at Bartholomew Close. London. There, he wrote the first of several pamphlets, attracting the attention of notable characters and their society friends. Whilst in London, he arranged to borrow and return books from a neighbouring secondhand bookshop, a concept which led to his creating, in 1731, the first Circulating Library, in Philadelphia. Within the year, 1725, he obtained a better position, working at Watt's printing-house, in Lincoln's Inn Fields. [See the 19 year old's Plan of Conduct.]
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