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Few men have done as much for the world as Benjamin Franklin. Although he was always proud to call himself a printer, Franklin had many other talents as well. He was a diplomat, a scientist, an inventor, a philosopher, an educator, and a public servant.
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Investigating electric phenomena was all the rage, especially in Europe, butnot one of the learned scientists had thought to ask the simple question Franklin framed: "How does it work?" He decided to obtain a jar of his own and find out. Franklin charged his jar, poured the water into another bottle, and found it had lost its charge. If the water did not hold the charge, it indicated that the glass of the jar did. To see if that was the case, he took a window pane, placed a thin sheet of lead on each side, and gave it a charge. He removed the sheets and tested for an electric charge.
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The aurora has intrigued philosophers and scientists, among them Aristotle, Descartes, Goethe, Dalton, and Benjamin Franklin. Early thinkers attempted to explain the aurora as a phenomenon rather than a miraculous or superstitious event. An early discourse on the aurora appears in the 13th century Norwegian work The King's Mirror, in which a prince interviews his father, the king, on various topics including the northern lights.
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Franklin's disciplined scientific thinking proved useful in the debates and formation of policy; it shed light on the path of future scientists. Franklin was not simply a good scientist who engaged in public service. He was one who used his scientific curiosity, nature, intuition, and powers of analysis in ways only a scientist could, and that made him especially effective in the political and public domains.
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Wood makes his case by tracing Franklin's evolution through five key stages. We begin with his early ambition of "Becoming a Gentleman," which shows that Franklin raised above his humble beginnings and trade as a printer not only through his own enterprise but through the patronage of wealthy and influential men, challenging the purity of his rags to riches story. "Becoming a British Imperialist" covers how Franklin the gentleman had time to become the scientist who would be known throughout the Empire and the continent as Dr. Franklin. These first two chapters are the most interesting because they representing the early Franklin who has been obscured by the Franklin the Founding Father.
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Created for the Institute's 175th Anniversary celebration, the exhibit explores Franklin's scientific genius: from meteorology and music, to electricity, optics, and aquatics. It ... offers new insight into the inventive minds of other great scientists whom Franklin inspired, such as the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison.
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