How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention

Posted by mathewgj on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:13AM
from the kalman.blogs.nytimes.com dept.

http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/can-do/

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Re:How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention by mathewgj on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:39AM (#733833)

Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do

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Re:How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention by thunk on Friday July 31, 2009 @02:27AM (#733891)

If you like that you'll love his autobiography:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148

It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.

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Re:How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention by ankeshk on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:37AM (#734041)

Very innovative. But a segue is missing. Ben Franklin's innovations are shown. Other modern world innovations are shown. How Ben Franklin inspired those world innovations is not shown. A link is missing.

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Re:How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention by sidburgess on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:23AM (#733816)

Fascinating collection. I really enjoyed just looking at these pictures. Thank you for sharing.

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Re:How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention by brandnewlow on Friday July 31, 2009 @02:44AM (#733911)

relentlessly resourceful...

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