Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist mb-width 220 Plate 26 from Volume 2

Plate 26 from Volume 2 of Travels in the Interior of North America

Portrait of a man in Elizabethan dress with a lace ruff and beard

Figure 1 shows the eardrum at natural size

and is valuable from having the primitive cubic crystals so distinct

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist mb-width 220 Plate 26 from Volume 2Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 20th century. Franklin (1706 1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Trained as a printer, first in his family's firm in Boston, and later in England, he became a notable publisher but is now better known as one of the founders of the science of electricity. Franklin became interested in the principles of electricity in 1747 and published