[DOC] [TLE] Franklin's Lightning Rod | The Franklin Institute [PAR] Ben Franklin wanted to prove that lightning was electricity, and attempt to protect 
... What would you think if you saw a man chasing a thunder and lightning ... In 
one of his letters, he described the shock as ... In June of 1752, Franklin was in 
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and academy in Philadelphia that would later become the University of ... Most 
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who gave ... I have not found one man who will put one shilling .... the world." 
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led the ... published twenty years before the telephone was invented. Having 
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renamed himself Pachakuti/"he who remakes the world. was the only one that did 
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black ...... His mission was to keep the Venetians and Muslims from trading with 
the East. [DOC] [TLE] Inventors, Philip Gengembre Hubert - Scientific Library [PAR] The great invention or discovery which entitles Benjamin Franklin to rank at ... In 
1746 he sent one of the new electrical tubes with a paper of directions for using it. 
.... that contain lightning are electrified or not, I would propose an experiment to 
.... of heaven," of course could not escape, and the impiety of lightning-rods was... [DOC] [TLE] the history of the telephone - PDFbooks [PAR] reed on one of the machines and the professor had heard ... heard by a man 
whose ear had been trained to recognize .... young Bell that the grand passion of 
science became ... him five hundred dollars if he would come to .... apart and 
connected by an electrified wire, catching .... would never have invented the 
telephone.. [DOC] [TLE] THE HISTORY OF THE TELEPHONE [PAR] Watson had snapped the reed on one of the machines and the professor had ... 
in the history of the world that a complete sound had been carried along a ..... 
What had this dead man's ear to do with the invention of the telephone? ... "If this 
tiny disc can vibrate a bone," he thought, "then an iron disc might vibrate an iron 
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private... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Benjamin Franklin, self-revealed; a biographical and ... [PAR] "He had wit at will," is the testi- ' The Abb6 Morellet in his Memoirs gives us very 
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republic. ..... at night than the heavens above it, and landing at Market Street, 
Philadelphia, .... Believing the Governor to be one of the best men in the world to 
have thus... [DOC] [TLE] if you're stronghearted - A Living Archives - University of Prince ... [PAR] unbounded faith in the future for Canada, for Prince Edward Island, he ... no one 
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Question: 1 man, 1 scientific mission... to tame the heavens... In 1752 he would invent the lightning rod... & electrify the world
Answer: Benjamin Franklin