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๐ก Franklin and Junto club debates 1727 Time-box the review to thirty seconds, then stop. Franklin practical note. Junto club debates 1727. Field note: Junto club debates 1727. Park it beside the last card you saved. Ref e21b ยท marker 251. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ก Franklin cut two pairs of glasses in half to see his dinner and the faces around him In old age Franklin needed one pair of spectacles to see far and another to read. Switching was a nuisance, so he had the lenses of both cut in half and set in one frame: distance on top, reading below. He explained it in a 1785 letter to his friend George Whatley. At dinner in France, he wrote, he could now see the food on his plate and the faces of the people talking to him, which helped him follow their French. In the photo: bifocals on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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โ๏ธ "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" began as fire advice Franklin wrote about fire safety for Philadelphia: better to prevent a blaze than to rebuild after one. The line hardened into a general proverb for medicine, money and policy. The original context was buckets, chimneys and insurance. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ก Franklin's kite was never meant as a stunt for children In 1752 he proposed flying a kite in a thunderstorm to draw electric fire from the clouds into a Leyden jar. He described a silk kite, a sharp wire, a hemp string, and a silk ribbon to hold โ standing dry under a shelter. The point was to prove lightning was electricity, not to play in the rain. Later retellings made it look casual. His own notes do not. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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โ๏ธ In his first almanac, Franklin predicted his rival's death to the minute In late 1732 Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanack under the name Richard Saunders, a poor stargazer whose wife wanted him to earn some money. Its main forecast was about Titan Leeds, who published a rival almanac in Philadelphia. Leeds protested in print. Franklin answered that the real Leeds had been too well bred to insult anyone, so the author must be an impostor and Leeds must be dead. When was Leeds supposed to die? Guess in the quiz. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ก Franklin numbered the streets of Philadelphia before most cities did Philadelphiaโs grid and numbered streets made houses easier to find for post riders and fire companies. Franklin pushed practical city improvements โ libraries, fire brigades, street lighting โ with the same tidy instinct he brought to his virtue notebook. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ก "Early to bed and early to rise" sold thrift as a system Poor Richard wrote that early hours make a man "healthy, wealthy and wise." The same almanac warned that waiting on fortune alone never fills a dinner plate. Franklin sold habits, not moods. He often worked late in London and Paris; the line was for readers. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ Franklin put the Gulf Stream on a map because the mail was slow As deputy postmaster general for the colonies, Franklin heard a complaint: mail packets from Falmouth, England, took about two weeks longer to reach New York than merchant ships took to reach Rhode Island. His cousin Timothy Folger, a Nantucket whaling captain, explained why. Whalers knew a strong current ran northeast along the coast. The British captains were sailing against it. Franklin had the Gulf Stream engraved on a chart around 1769. The packet captains ignored it. In 1786, back from France, he printed an updated chart. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ช A speckled ax became Franklin's excuse for giving up on perfection In his Autobiography, Franklin tells of a man who asked a smith to grind his whole ax as bright as its edge. The smith agreed, if the man turned the grindstone. He turned and turned until he was exhausted, and decided to take the ax as it was. "Turn on, turn on," said the smith, "we shall have it bright by-and-by; as yet, it is only speckled." "Yes," says the man, "but I think I like a speckled ax best." Franklin admitted that answer was his own: he never reached the perfection he was after, but by trying he became "a better and a happier man". Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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โ๏ธ Franklin cut a snake into eight pieces to tell the colonies to unite On May 9, 1754, Franklin printed it in his Pennsylvania Gazette: a snake cut into eight pieces, each labelled with a colony or region, above the words "Join, or Die." It backed his plan at the Albany Congress that summer for the colonies to unite against the French. The colonies turned the plan down. The snake came back in 1765 and 1774, this time aimed at Britain. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ก How did Franklin propose to wake Paris at dawn? In 1784, writing anonymously to the Journal de Paris, Franklin "discovered" that the sun gives light as soon as it rises. He calculated that Parisians could save 64 million pounds of candles a year by getting up earlier. His mock regulations: tax every window with shutters, ration candles, stop coaches after sunset. Guess the last one in the quiz. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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โก๏ธ Franklin's kite was never struck by lightning, and that's why he lived In June 1752, by his own account, Franklin flew a silk kite into a storm cloud near Philadelphia with his son William. A key hung on the wet string. When he brought his knuckle near it, he felt a spark: the cloud was electric. A direct strike would have killed him. In 1753 the physicist Georg Richmann died in St Petersburg during a similar experiment. What Franklin wanted from it was practical: proof for his lightning rod. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ฉ Franklin called the bald eagle "a bird of bad moral character" In January 1784, in a letter to his daughter Sarah, he mocked the eagle on the badge of the new Society of the Cincinnati, which some said looked like a turkey: "For my own part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly." The turkey, he went on, was "a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America." He never sent the letter. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ฏ At 22, Franklin wrote his own epitaph as a printer's joke In 1728 the young printer compared his future corpse to a worn-out book: "The Body of B. Franklin, Printer; Like the Cover of an old Book, Its Contents torn out, And stript of its Lettering and Gilding, Lies here, Food for Worms. But the Work shall not be wholly lost: For it will, as he believ'd, appear once more, In a new & more perfect Edition, Corrected and amended By the Author." He wrote out copies for friends for decades. His real grave in Philadelphia's Christ Church Burial Ground is a plain slab: "Benjamin and Deborah Franklin 1790". Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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๐ก Franklin cut two pairs of glasses in half to see his dinner and the faces around him In old age Franklin needed one pair of spectacles to see far and another to read. Switching was a nuisance, so he had the lenses of both cut in half and set in one frame: distance on top, reading below. He explained it in a 1785 letter to his friend George Whatley. At dinner in France, he wrote, he could now see the food on his plate and the faces of the people talking to him, which helped him follow their French. In the photo: bifocals on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin ๐บ๐ธ
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