In, «The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,» the life story of one of the most important figures in American history is recounted. The book tells the story of Franklin's early days as a printer, publisher and inventor through to the year 1757 where the Autobiography ends uncompleted. Franklin wrote this autobiography during three different periods in his life and it is supposed that it is left unfinished due to his dying before its completion. There may be no greater figure in American...
Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod. Franklin's extraordinary range of interests and accomplishments are brilliantly recorded in his...
In «The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin» the life story of one of the most important figures in American history is recounted. The book tells the story of Franklin's early days as a printer, publisher and inventor through to the year 1757 where the Autobiography ends uncompleted. Franklin wrote this autobiography during three different periods in his life and it is supposed that it is left unfinished due to his dying before its completion. There may be no greater figure in American...
Его портрет растиражирован несчетное количество раз на главной денежной купюре США. Его изобретения – громоотвод, кресло-качалка, бифокальные очки – используют во всех странах мира. Его произведения и афоризмы давно стали классикой. Автобиография Бенджамина Франклина – одна из самых увлекательных историй жизни человека, который всего добился сам, пройдя путь от недоучки до знаменитого политического деятеля, бизнесмена и ученого. События его судьбы доказывают, что для человека с пытливым умом и...
“Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. … If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union: but we shall have saved it, as to make, and keep it, forever worthy of the saving.” – Abraham Lincoln