| Not only in this country, but in much of Europe, Benjamin Franklin was recognized as a scholar and man of letters. |
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| In 1760, Benjamin Franklin instructed a London firm to make him spectacles with two types of lenses fitted together, thus inventing bifocals. |
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| In 1998, the Awards Program was reorganized under the umbrella of The Benjamin Franklin Medals. |
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| Benjamin Franklin was the US ambassador to absolutist France after the American Revolution. |
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| In 1713, Benjamin Franklin took money he had received for Christmas and bought a penny whistle. |
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| George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Paul Revere were among the prominent American Masons of the Revolutionary Era. |
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| From her experience as a suburban domestic, she claims Benjamin Franklin as role model and strives to become a successful self-made American. |
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| The most commonly used system on spires is the Franklin lightning conductor developed by Benjamin Franklin. |
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| For lack of inoculation, Benjamin Franklin lost a son by smallpox, and ever after regretted his opposition. |
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| Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to propose such an idea, which led to the development of the dirigible. |
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| Some ill-natured fiends had even suggested that Benjamin Franklin was really Poor Richard. |
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| In 1784 Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals, dividing his lenses for distant and near vision, the split parts being held together by the frame. |
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| That giant of homespun philosophy, Benjamin Franklin, put a similar thought in characteristically practical terms. |
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| Keys: Benjamin Franklin He's totally the gearhead of this band and he basically invented the glass harmonica so I think he could handle this. |
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| Benjamin Franklin probably first learned of Canassatego's advice to the colonies as he set the sachem's words in type. |
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| Alongside Benjamin Franklin he helped reform Pennsylvania's harsh penal code. |
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| These early American corn breads, including the hoe cakes and johnny cake which attracted praise from Benjamin Franklin were griddle or hearth baked. |
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| The author was a 16-year-old Benjamin Franklin, whose older brother edited the courant. |
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| Americans starting with Benjamin Franklin have been suspicious of liberal arts higher education. |
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| Legend has it that Benjamin Franklin added the mile markers during his tenure as postmaster general, using a mechanical odometer attached to his wagon. |
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| This ode to education is also reminiscent of the glorification of American education by eighteenth-century male American autobiographers like Benjamin Franklin. |
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| Tridents were also retrofitted onto 12 SSBNs of the James Madison and Benjamin Franklin classes, replacing Poseidon missiles. |
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| Benjamin Franklin became interested in the North Atlantic Ocean circulation patterns. |
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| In the 1750s, the first electrostatic motors were developed by Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Gordon. |
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| In June 1776, Benjamin Franklin was appointed a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. |
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| The meetings with the French king were most likely conducted in the company and under the influence of Benjamin Franklin. |
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| In the American colonies, the Library Company of Philadelphia was started in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. |
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| Benjamin Franklin testified in Parliament in 1766 that Americans already contributed heavily to the defense of the Empire. |
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| Owen claimed to have had mediumistic contact with the spirits of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others. |
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| Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson hailed the French Revolution. |
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| The Lindley teenager has won a prestigious Benjamin Franklin scholarship to an American Ivy League university. |
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| Benjamin Franklin was Deputy Postmaster General of the British colonies of North America before he became one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. |
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| Changing one's mind all by oneself is so rare and so difficult, that people who manage to do so become very famous, like Isaac Newton, or Benjamin Franklin, or Louis Pasteur. |
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| In America, Benjamin Franklin took a pivotal step in keeping the two professions separate when he appointed an apothecary to the Pennsylvania Hospital. |
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| In 1736, Benjamin Franklin created the Union Fire Company as an organized volunteer fire company. |
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| One of its founders, Benjamin Franklin, alone was responsible for inventing the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and the flexible urinary catheter. |
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| The pointed lightning conductor had been invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1749, while Benjamin Wilson invented blunted ones. |
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| Benjamin Franklin, postmaster general for the colonies, acknowledged that he leaked the letters, which led to him being berated by British officials and fired from his job. |
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| Benjamin Franklin negotiated a permanent military alliance in early 1778, significantly becoming the first country to officially recognize the Declaration of Independence. |
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| It was the Age of the Enlightenment, and ideas flowed back and forth across the Atlantic, with Philadelphian Benjamin Franklin playing a major role. |
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| Benjamin Franklin visited Europe repeatedly and contributed actively to the scientific and political debates there and brought the newest ideas back to Philadelphia. |
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| Commission composed by Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee. |
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| Benjamin Franklin created a fermented spruce beer, George Washington's beer recipe called for molasses, and Jefferson malted his own wheat and corn for ale. |
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