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	Franklin stove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franklin designed a similar stove with more advanced metallurgy and was successful in making it work-- at some point in 1742, if we are to believe his own account of this invention.
		Historians note that at the time Philadelphia, where Franklin lived, was probably one of the biggest cities in North America and that wood was becoming scarce and costly, given the ever rising demand and the fairly poor transportation systems.
		His stove was described by his contemporaries as giving off twice the amount of heat as a normal fireplace for a third of the wood consumed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franklin_stove (381 words)

	Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franklin was interested in science and technology, carrying out his famous electricity experiments and invented the Franklin stove, medical catheter, lightning rod, swimfins, glass harmonica, and bifocals.
		Franklin's father, Josiah Franklin, was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a flsmith and farmer, and Jane White.
		Franklin's experiment was not written up until Joseph Priestley's 1767 History and Present Status of Electricity; the evidence shows that Franklin was insulated (not in a conducting path, as he would have been in danger of electrocution in the event of a lightning strike).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Franklin (5903 words)

	Franklin Court
		Franklin's design, as seen in the photo on the left, used glasses that were blown in the proper size and thickness which created the proper pitch without having to be filled with water.
		Franklin developed a new style of stove with a hoodlike enclosure in the front and an airbox in the rear.
		Franklin described the Gulf Stream as a river of warm water and mapped it as flowing north from the West Indies, along the East Coast of North America and east across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
	www.nps.gov /inde/Franklin_Court/Pages/franklininventor1.html (643 words)

	Benjamin Franklin - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Franklin is a key Enlightenment figure, notably mostly for the degree to which he influenced politics.
		Franklin, in his writings, displays that he was cognizant of the dangers and alternative ways to demonstrate that lightning was electrical.
		Franklin's frequent use of pseudonyms in his writings, particularly in letters to the editor of his brother's paper and in his own Almanack, were intended to communicate arguments to the greater public which might be seen as risque, heretical, or possibly illegal or treasonous by the authorities.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Ben_Franklin (2881 words)

	Franklin, Benjamin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Franklin was a leader of the popular party in Pennsylvania against the Penn family, who were the proprietors, and in 1757 he was sent to England to present the case against the Penns.
		There, while his illegitimate son, William Franklin, was becoming a leader of the Loyalists, Benjamin Franklin became one of the greatest statesmen of the American Revolution and of the newborn nation.
		Franklin helped to direct U.S. naval operations and was a successful agent for the United States in Europe—the sole one after suspicions and quarrels caused Congress to annul the powers of the other American commissioners.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/FranklinB.html (1134 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Benjamin Franklin
		Benjamin Franklin, born January 17, 1706, was the 10th son, and 15th child, of 17 children in the Josiah Franklin family.
		Franklin's business ventures included the purchase of the Pennsylvania Gazette, which, after his improvement, was considered one of the best colonial newspapers; Poor Richard's Almanac, written under the pseudonym, Richard Saunders, and published from 1732 to 1757; and the printing of Pennsylvania's paper currency.
		Franklin was bedridden during the final year of his life and died on April 17, 1790.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Franklin.html (762 words)

	Benjamin Franklin
		Franklin's business ventures included the purchase of the Pennsylvania Gazette, which, after his improvement, was considered one of the best colonial newspapers.
		During the next several years, Franklin was instrumental in establishing the first fire department, a police force, and the Academy of Philadelphia, which became the University of Pennsylvania.
		Franklin became a hero to the French, and his company was sought by diplomats and nobility.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Biographies/FranklinBio.htm (697 words)

	Benjamin Franklin by Richard Jensen
		Franklin was not the first to suggest the identity of lightning and electricity; but he proposed a method of testing the theory by erecting an iron rod on a high tower or steeple (letter to Collinson, July 29, 1750; Writings, II, 426, 437).
		Franklin's first proposal for a compromise was not adopted; but he was a member of the committee appointed to adjust the matter, and largely responsible for the compromise actually incorporated in the Constitution (Ibid., 273-74, 487).
		Franklin was indeed "many sided." From the varied facets of his powerful mind he threw a brilliant light on all aspects of human life; it is only in his character of natural philosopher that he emits a light quite unclouded.
	tigger.uic.edu /~rjensen/franklin.htm (8571 words)

	Benjamin Franklin . Wit and Wisdom . Master Marketer \| PBS
		Franklin made sure that townspeople saw him hard at work early in the morning and late at night, hoping that people would perceive "hard work" as "good work" and become customers of his print shop.
		Franklin was already well-known in France as a scientist and intellectual, but the stylish Parisians were amused by the cap.
		Franklin continued to wear the cap to give the impression that he was a simple man from the Americas, even though he was one of the slyest diplomats the French would ever meet.
	www.pbs.org /benfranklin/l3_wit_master.html (503 words)

	Benjamin Franklin . Inquiring Mind . It's the Little Things \| PBS
		Franklin's understanding of electricity allowed him to design the lightning rod, which was a metal rod attached to the high point of a building.
		Franklin came up with the idea for the lightning rod in 1750, however it was 1753 before he perfected the invention.
		Franklin biographer Carl Van Doren describes this invention as "a curious clock, economical but not quite practical." In 1758, Franklin's friend, James Ferguson, improved the clock, much to Franklin's pleasure.
	www.pbs.org /benfranklin/l3_inquiring_little.html (755 words)

	Franklin Stove History - Invention of the Franklin Stove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Franklin rectified this unsafe method of heating by inventing the iron furnace stove, or what he called the Pennsylvania Fireplace and we know today as the Franklin Stove.
		Benjamin Franklin, a genius by anyone’s standards, was satisfied that he had invented an open stove for the better warming of rooms, and at the same time saving fuel.
		By 1790, the improved Franklin stove was in wide use and became an integral piece of Americana.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story034.htm (1750 words)

	Ben Franklin Busybodies™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the age of twenty-two, Ben Franklin was the owner of the Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper.
		As a young man in his twenties, Ben Franklin was elected clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and he used his printing company to print their laws and other business.
		Ben Franklin was the chief delegate to the Albany Congress of 1754, the first major conference to discuss a confederacy of the colonies.
	www.franklinbusybody.com /facts.asp (1942 words)

	All American: Benjamin Franklin
		In his invention of the Franklin stove, the maxims of Poor Richard, his establishment of the Junto and a circulating library, and the "bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection" he describes in his autobiography, we can see a commitment to human progress through human initiative.
		Even Franklin's style subtly engages readers, as Bosco explains, "Through bland reportage he delegates to his readers responsibility for judging the accuracy and plausibility of his reportage and gives them the opportunity to hide from their own villainy by observing that of others" (84).
		Sam Kneeland, Franklin's own brother James, and others among Franklin's contemporaries, Grabo writes, believed that "the function of the journalist is to improve and educate readers by widening individual views, by expanding their vision, and inevitably by getting away from narrow self-interest" (35).
	www.geocities.com /markcanada_uncp/author.html (3068 words)

	Inventors: Benjamin Franklin - EnchantedLearning.com
		Franklin was the 10th son, and 15th child of 17 children in his family; his father made soap.
		Franklin was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania (1785-88), and helped write both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution; he signed both of these historic documents.
		He also invented the Franklin stove (an efficient, cast-iron furnace located in the middle of a room), swim fins, the odometer (mileage recorder), the ladder chair (a chair that converts into a library ladder), the glass (h)armonica (a musical instrument composed of rotating glass cylinders), and the first medical catheter.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /inventors/page/f/franklin.shtml (611 words)

	"Franklin...He's Electric!" @ The Franklin Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The role of The Franklin Institute in major scientific breakthroughs during its 175-year-plus history is highlighted in a special section, "The Wonderland of Science." This was a term coined to describe the museum shortly after its opening in 1934.
		Franklin developed the single-fluid theory of electricity, introducing many of the terms used to describe electricity today: battery, conductor, condenser, charge, discharge, uncharged, negative, minus, plus, electric shock and electrician.
		Franklin was one of the first to discover that storms tend to move from west to east, and he made some of the first- recorded weather forecasts in his Poor Richard's Almanack.
	sln.fi.edu /tfi/exhibits/franklin.html (1083 words)

	Franklin's Scientific Accomplishments
		It is believed that Franklin, through correspondence with friends in Europe, learned of these discoveries during the summer of 1746; and in the Fall and Winter of that year proceeded to conduct his own electrical experiments.
		Franklin soon refined his thoughts on lightning rods and added to their design a wire which would run from the rod down the side of the building into the ground, or down round one of the shrouds of a shop and down her side till it reached the water.
		Franklin's stove, as can be seen from the picture, was designed to fit inside a fireplace.
	www.math.tamu.edu /~stecher/489/Ben/science.shtml (1902 words)

	Benjamin Franklin
		The "Franklin stove" that he invented worked by improving the flow of radiation from the stove throughout the room.
		Benjamin Franklin became interested in what people wore and if they were comfortable in their clothes.
		Franklin seems to think that people should wear light colored clothing in tropical countries, where the sunlight is very strong.
	eosweb.larc.nasa.gov /EDDOCS/franklin.html (1135 words)

	Benjamin Franklin \| American Statesman and Inventor
		Franklin was one of the leading founding fathers of the United States of America.
		Franklin himself served the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the new United States of America, in one way or the other, for most of his life.
		Benjamin Franklin served in London as a agent for the Pennsylvania Assembly, and later as agent for the colonies of Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
	www2.lucidcafe.com /lucidcafe/library/96jan/franklin.html (759 words)

	Franklin stove -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Such a source, along with related methods such as fireplaces, cast-iron stoves, and modern space heaters fueled by gas or electricity, is known as direct heating because the conversion of energy into heat takes place at the site to be heated.
		Franklin's stove stood in the fireplace, but its grate extended out into the room.
		A stove is an enclosed structure; a fireplace is a housing for an open fire.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035189 (719 words)

	Inventor Benjamin Franklin
		Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston.
		Franklin returned to Philadelphia in 1762, where he remained until 1764, when he was once again dispatched to England as the agent of Pennsylvania.
		Franklin was deeply interested in philanthropic projects, and one of his last public acts was to sign a petition to the U.S. Congress, on February 12, 1790, as president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, urging the abolition of slavery and the suppression of the slave trade.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/franklin.htm (2620 words)

	No. 510: Franklin's Electricity
		The bare bones of the legend say that Franklin flew a kite into the sky -- that he showed the world how to harness the wild electric forces of nature.
		Franklin began working on electricity after he heard a lecture about it in Scotland in 1743.
		After an earthquake in 1755, a cleric claimed Franklin had caused it by directing all that lightning into the ground.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi510.htm (556 words)

	Benjamin Franklin
		Although his formal schooling was brief, Franklin believed "the doors to wisdom are never shut," and taught himself logic, history, science, algebra, geometry, navigation, English grammar, and could get along in five foreign languages.
		The Thomas Edison of his day, Franklin had not only a keen interest in science, he invented the Franklin stove, bifocal eyeglasses and the lightning rod.
		Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society, published Poor Richard's Almanack — "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason," he wrote in 1758 — and was appointed Postmaster-General for the Colonies in 1764.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0117almanac.htm (558 words)

	Franklin Wood Stove #IFS260E Owners Manual
		The stove pipe should be firmly attached to the boot assembly (Parts 3 and 4) with three (3) sheet metal screws and sealed with stove cement.
		The connector stove pipe and fittings you will need to connect directly to a masonry chimney are shown in Fig.
		The chimney used for a stove must not be used to ventilate the cellar or basement.
	www.vogelzang.com /manuals/fs260eMnl.htm (2000 words)

	IMA Hero: Ben Franklin HH
		Benjamin Franklin is one of the greatest Americans in history.
		Ben invented the Franklin Stove between 1742 and 1744.
		The Franklin Stove is a heater, not a cooking stove.
	www.imahero.com /herohistory/ben_herohistory.htm (1427 words)

	David Stove, Philosopher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Franklin, `Stove's discovery of the worst argument in the world', Philosophy 77 (2002): 615-24.
		James Franklin's book, The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal is a Stovian view on the history of probability: it sees the subject in terms of logical probability rather than random processes like dice-throwing.
		Robert Stove, son of David Stove; his website, with information on his articles and his book The Unsleeping Eye: A Brief History of Secret Police and Their Victims.
	web.maths.unsw.edu.au /~jim/davidstove.html (523 words)

	Mini Franklin Gas Stove Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		“We have purchased two stoves from you and are very pleased with the quality, performance and value of both of them.
		People who saw the first, experimental versions of the Mini Franklin thought they were toys, or a scaled-down versions of bigger stoves.
		If you purchase a gas stove that is too big, the amount of heat that it provides can be uncomfortable, and if it is thermostatically controlled, it just cycles on and off all the time.
	www.woodstove.com /pages/minicottage.html (488 words)

	Super Scientists - Benjamin Franklin
		Franklin proved that lightning is a form of electricity with the famous, and very dangerous, kite experiment.
		The lightning rod was among his inventions, along with the Franklin stove and bifocal glasses.
		Franklin also organized an effective postal system, mapped the Gulf Stream and recognized the aurora borealis as an electrical phenomenon.
	www.energyquest.ca.gov /scientists/franklin.html (157 words)

	franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		My inventions are still used, like bifocals, the Franklin Stove and many others.
		One of my first inventions was the Franklin Stove which produced more heat and used less wood to burn.
		The Franklin Stove is still used in some homes, but now most people have central heaters for their homes.
	www.edserv.sjcoe.k12.ca.us /we/biographies/franklin.html (806 words)

	Benjamin Franklin and His Inventions
		As early as 1784, Franklin suggested following the Chinese model of dividing ships' holds into watertight compartments so that if a leak occurred in one compartment, the water would not spread throughout the hold and sink the ship.
		His invention of an iron furnace stove allowed people to warm their homes less dangerously and with less wood.
		The furnace stove that he invented is called a Franklin stove.
	sln.fi.edu /franklin/inventor/inventor.html (529 words)

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