Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin: Written By Himself. Volume 1

A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin's The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America's most fascinating Founding Father.
Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country's survival.
Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography...

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the thirteen United States of America. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the 'Articles' in June 1776 and proposed the draft to the States for ratification in November 1777. The ratification process was completed in March 1781, legally federating the sovereign and independent states, allied under the Articles of Association, into a new federation styled the "United States of America." Under the Articles the states retained...

Bild 1 Die Beatification, wie sie in dem Werk von B. Rackstrow: Miscellaneous observations, tagether with a co/lection of experiments on electricity, London 1748, dargestellt ist. Elektrische Materie wird von einem Reibungsgenerator auf die Platte oberhalb der Krone geleitet. Die Krone selbst ist evakuiert, um die Wirkung zu verstarken. Zusatzlich zu den Entladungen an den ausseren Spitzen der Krone ist das partielle Vakuum in ihrem Inneren von einem diffusen Leuchten erftillt. Einleitung XVII Bild 2 Wilckes Notizen zu Franklins Versuch, eine isolierte Person B stetig durch Funken aufzuladen;...

"There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
--- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.
Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the...

Franklin's Way to Wealth
By Benjamin Franklin
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The political legacy of Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) has tended to overshadow his inventions and scientific discoveries, but this work, of which the 1769 enlarged fourth edition is reissued here, gathers together published and unpublished letters which demonstrate the range of his interests. A large number (many addressed to his friend, the English botanist Peter Collinson) are about experiments with electricity, but (as the subtitle, 'to which are added letters and papers on philosophical subjects', makes clear) others discuss the setting of words to music, the warming of water by pumping,...