American printers Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Benjamin Franklin, Ann Smith Franklin, John Peter Zenger, James Franklin, Cully Cobb, William J. Boarman, James Rivington, Walter Hamady, J. Marvin Hunter, Norman T.A. Munder, Samuel C. Upham, E. B. Grandin, Louis Timothee, Anne Catherine Hoof Green, Christopher Sower, Isaiah Thomas, William Bradford, Andrew Hoyem, Louis Prang, John P. Charlton, Joseph T. Crowell, George Banta, Joseph Dixon, Christoph Sauer, John Dunlap, Nelson Hawks, Francis W. Palmer, David Atwood, Joel Heatwole, Edmund Freeman, Samuel Green, Christopher Sower III, John Frederick Weishampel, Jr, George Phineas Gordon, Edward Eveleth Powars, Andrew Marschalk, David Faber, James Phelan, Sr., Matthias Bartgis, Pomeroy Tucker, Daniel Fowle, Theodore Low De Vinne, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Ingalls Kimball, John Gill, Isaac Ashmead, Bartholomew Green, Charles Gilbert Sower, Theodore Regensteiner, Andrew Bradford, Hugo Knudsen, John Henry Miller, Samuel Kneeland, William Welch. Excerpt: Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 ? April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. Franklin earned the title of 'The First American' for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the America [...] Autor: Source: Wikipedia Wydawnictwo: Books LLC, Reference Series Rok wydania: 2022 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 52 Wymiary: 24.6 x 18.9 x 0.6 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781155878546