Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin Printer To Scientist To Politician History Essay
Introduction
Benjamin Franklin should be remembered as one of the founding father of the today’s world superpower- the United States of America. Franklin was born on January 17 1706 and lived on until April 17, 1790. Franklin a noted polymath was a leading printer author, political theorist, postmaster, scientist, civic activist, statesman as well as a diplomat. As a scientist, Franklin can be remembered as the major figure involved in the Enlighten of America and the history of physics for his unending theories and discoveries as far as electricity is concerned. He is the figure behind the invention of the “lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'” Franklin established the pioneering public lending library as well as the first fire department in Pennsylvania1.
Franklin received the title of "The First American" for his early on and untiring demonstration for colonial agreement; as a author and spokesperson in London for numerous colonies, and later afterwards as the premier United States diplomat to France, he epitomized the budding American nation. Franklin was not only foundational but also introductory in structuring the American ethos as a matrimony of the realistic and independent values of “thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious”, with the systematic and liberal values of the illumination. According to a renowned historian Henry Steele Commager, "Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." While To Walter Isaacson, Franklin was "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."2...
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Benjamin Franklin Printer To Scientist To Politician History Essay
Introduction
Benjamin Franklin should be remembered as one of the founding father of the today’s world superpower- the United States of America. Franklin was born on January 17 1706 and lived on until April 17, 1790. Franklin a noted polymath was a leading printer author, political theorist, postmaster, scientist, civic activist, statesman as well as a diplomat. As a scientist, Franklin can be remembered as the major figure involved in the Enlighten of America and the history of physics for his unending theories and discoveries as far as electricity is concerned. He is the figure behind the invention of the “lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'” Franklin established the pioneering public lending library as well as the first fire department in Pennsylvania1.
Franklin received the title of "The First American" for his early on and untiring demonstration for colonial agreement; as a author and spokesperson in London for numerous colonies, and later afterwards as the premier United States diplomat to France, he epitomized the budding American nation. Franklin was not only foundational but also introductory in structuring the American ethos as a matrimony of the realistic and independent values of “thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious”, with the systematic and liberal values of the illumination. According to a renowned historian Henry Steele Commager, "Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." While To Walter Isaacson, Franklin was "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."2...