How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention

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Post by mathewgj » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 5:13 AM UTC

How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention
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Post by sidburgess » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 5:23 AM UTC

Fascinating collection. I really enjoyed just looking at these pictures. Thank you for sharing.

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Post by mathewgj » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 5:39 AM UTC

Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do

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Post by thunk » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 6:27 AM UTC

mathewgj wrote: post #3

Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do

If you like that you'll love his autobiography:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148

It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.

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Post by brandnewlow » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 6:44 AM UTC

relentlessly resourceful...

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Post by ankeshk » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 8:37 AM UTC

Very innovative. But a segue is missing. Ben Franklin's innovations are shown. Other modern world innovations are shown. How Ben Franklin inspired those world innovations is not shown. A link is missing.