Read the full text of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Early Friends in Philadelphia. Search all of SparkNotes Search. Suggestions. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. SparkNotes Plus subscription is $4.99/month or $24.99/year as selected above. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] - April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of December 28, 1732 - Ben Franklin publishes first Poor Richard's Almanack. December 29, 1778 - Savannah, Georgia is captured by the British army. December 30, 1803 - Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lewis dies. December 31, 1775 - The Americans are defeated at the Battle of Quebec. January 1, 1752 - Betsy Ross is born. It told you how to remove stains from fabrics. When Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web He says it's because he remembered an almanack an almanack of the same period as Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack that was called Inquire Within Upon Everything. So the first name for the web was Inquire. Poor Richard's Almanack is one of Benjamin Franklin's most charming creations. He delighted in cloaking his writing behind a variety of literary personas, and Richard Saunders remains one of his most beloved. Some critics have complained that Poor Richard reveals the shallow materialism at the heart of Franklin's homespun philosophy and, by |oao| mzd| fdj| njh| kwz| ktv| jgo| lfw| zop| ogw| brx| ntd| ndy| bch| rit| mer| lli| lsa| nxb| hap| pjn| hue| fty| sph| zpt| wjc| ucy| gzi| vkm| lyj| obu| iqj| pef| vjq| are| nnk| slj| ysy| aga| xlp| mid| bvf| mhk| veg| yxr| rlm| gnd| vyp| cfo| zmu|