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  2. James Rumsey - Wikipedia

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    In the summer of 1785, while Rumsey and his assistant Joseph Barnes were in the process of assembling his boat, Benjamin Franklin, on board a ship from France, wrote of propelling a boat by water jet. [5] This coincidence has sometimes led people to believe Rumsey got the idea from Franklin.

  3. USS Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. a

  4. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin's mother, Abiah, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher, and his wife, Mary Morrell Folger, a former indentured servant.

  5. No, Ben Franklin Did Not Invent Daylight Saving Time - AOL

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    No, it was not started to help farmers, and Benjamin Franklin did not invent it. Brush up on the real history of daylight saving time before we fall back Nov. 3 No, Ben Franklin Did Not Invent ...

  6. ‘Franklin’ Director, Writers on How Benjamin Franklin Saved ...

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    Franklin” tells the story of how Benjamin Franklin, best known at the time as an inventor, travels to France in December 1776 on a secret mission. In the American colonies, the British appear ...

  7. Franklin's electrostatic machine - Wikipedia

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    Franklin's electrostatic machine on display at the Franklin Institute. Franklin's electrostatic machine is a high-voltage static electricity-generating device used by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century for research into electrical phenomena.

  8. Could You Possess a ‘Bugs Bunny’ Franklin Half ... - AOL

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    Benjamin Franklin was a man of many professions and talents -- tradesman, publisher, writer, artist, scientist, inventor, political revolutionary, statesman. Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, is a ...

  9. A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain

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    It argues that an omnipotent, benevolent God is incompatible with notions of human free will and morality.The second portion of the pamphlet goes on to formulate that all motivations are derived from pain and that pain is met with an equal amount of pleasure.