Benjamin Franklin - Unabridged Guide

Here's part of the content - you would like to know it all? Delve into this book today!..... : While in England in 1768 he heard a complaint from the Colonial Board of Customs: Why did it take British packet ships carrying mail several weeks longer to reach New York than it took an average merchant ship to reach Newport, Rhode Island - despite the merchantmen having a longer and more complex voyage because they left from London, while the packets left from Falmouth in Cornwall?

... When rain has wet the kite twine so that it can conduct the electric fire freely, you will find it streams out plentifully from the key at the approach of your knuckle, and with this key a phial, or Leiden jar, maybe charged: and from electric fire thus obtained spirits may be kindled, and all other electric experiments [may be] performed which are usually done by the help of a rubber glass globe or tube; and therefore the sameness of the electrical matter with that of lightening completely demonstrated.

...If I judge some two Reasons con equal to some three Reasons pro, I strike out the five; and thus proceeding I find at length where the Ballance lies; and if after a Day or two of farther Consideration nothing new that is of Importance occurs on either side, I come to a Determination accordingly.

...He had never been to Ireland before, and met and stayed with Lord Hillsborough, whom he believed was especially attentive, but of whom he noted that all the plausible behaviour I have described is meant only, by patting and stroking the horse, to make him more patient, while the reins are drawn tighter, and the spurs set deeper into his sides.

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Inside the Guide: Benjamin Franklin, Button Gwinnett, Bust (sculpture), Boston Latin School, Blue plaque, Bifocals, Benjamin Wilson (painter), Benjamin Thompson, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin H. Brewster, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Benjamin Franklin Medal (Royal Society of Arts), Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute), Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, Benjamin Franklin House, Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist), Benjamin Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin (clergyman), Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet, Ben Franklin effect, Baron d'Holbach, Banknote, Bagatelles and satires (Benjamin Franklin), Articles of Confederation, Arthur Lee (diplomat), Antoine Lavoisier, Ann Smith Franklin, Andrew Hamilton (lawyer), Andrew A. Harwood, American Writers: A Journey Through History, American Revolution, American Philosophical Society, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Dallas Bache, Alessandro Volta, Albert Gallatin, Albany Congress, Agnes Irwin, Age of Enlightenment, Adam Smith