Today in history
Subtitle: January 17
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Cable cars (Streetcars)
Other titles: January 17
Description: Presents a biographical sketch of Benjamin Franklin, born Jan. 17, 1706, in Boston. Also relates the early history of the San Francisco cable cars, patented Jan. 17, 1871, with links to early (1897-1916) films of San Francisco.
Notes: Title from HTML header (viewed on Nov. 8, 2002; last updated Jan. 2001).

Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: The pragmatic innovator; title: [Cable cars].