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The scientific instruments from Benjamin Franklin’s time were used not just by a few intellectuals and scientists in a backroom laboratory, but by everyone, as this exhibit shows. The ferment and excitement over discovering new things with these instruments was clearly so widespread that it was sometimes difficult to distinguish between science, the application of science in the form of new technology, and daily entertainment.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Author, Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Philosophic Initiate and Rose Cross, was born in Boston, Mass., January 17, 1706, of parents so poor that he actually received but one year of schooling. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to his brother, a printer, publisher of the New England Courant. When this brother became involved in other matters, Franklin, though but sixteen, continued the business. Despite working and assuming such responsibility, the boy's income was so small that, in order to buy the books he wanted, he gave up the eating of meat to save a little money that he might continue to buy books and study.
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Did you know that in 1783 Franklin witnessed the first manned balloon flight, and was among the scientists who signed an official certification of this historic achievement for the Montgolfier brothers? Although initially he could see no practical use for balloon flight, his curiosity was piqued by the strange new phenomenon, and he financed another balloonist, Jacques Charles, who championed hydrogen over the Montgolfier’s hot air. By January the next year, Franklin was writing to his friend Jan Ingenhousz suggesting that balloons “may possibly give a new Turn to human Affairs.” He argued that no ground army would ever be able to mount a sufficient defense against an onslaught of “Five thousand Balloons capable of raising two Men each” and hoped that this would ultimately convince “Sovereigns of the Folly of Wars.” On a more practical level, Franklin’s grandson, Temple, received history’s first airmail letter, carried across the English Channel by balloon in December 1784.
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This was the original home of the world-famous Franklin Institute. The Franklin Institute was founded in this location by Samuel Merick, interested in promoting interaction between inventors and scientists, in the tradition of Benjamin Franklin. At this location were innovations in the weather bureau, standardization of machine parts, and promotion of the incandescent light bulb. The first architectural courses in America were given here, with teachers such as Thomas U. Walter and William Strickland. In 1933, the Franklin Institute vacated the building and it was almost demolished. In 1938, A. Atwater Kent, a pioneering radio manufacturer, established this museum of the history of the city.
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Franklin would be at the forefront of much needed reforms of science textbooks and curricula. He might lead that effort by bringing together first-rate scientists and science writers to develop engaging and accurate material. It would all be available on the World Wide Web, and would be popular because it was good and up-to-date, and not for political or commercial reasons.
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On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb. Photo Courtesy Outlaw Labs
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