Benjamin Franklin

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English: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Deutsch: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) war ein nordamerikanischer Politiker, Schriftsteller und Verleger, Naturwissenschaftler, Erfinder, Naturphilosoph und Freimaurer.

Gaeilge: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), ceann de na Bhunaitheoirí na Stáit Aontaithe Mheirceá.

Italiano: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) scienziato e uomo politico statunitense

Polski: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), uczony, filozof i polityk amerykański.

Português: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Jornalista, político, cientista e inventor estadunidense.

Русский: Бенджамин Франклин (1706–1790) — учёный, журналист, издатель, дипломат, политический деятель, масон.

[edit] Portraits

First portrait by Robert Feke (1748)
Painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis
Painting by Benjamin Wilson (c. 1760)
Painting by Mason Chamberlin (1762)
Painting by David Martin (1767)
Painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1777)
Portrait of Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (ca. 1785)
Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale (1785)
Franklin in his fur cap

[edit] On group pictures

Treaty of Paris, unfinished painting by Benjamin West (1783)
The five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. Painting by John Trumbull (commissioned 1817)
Franklin and the ladies of Paris

[edit] Documents related to Franklin

New England Courant, third Silence Dogood essay (detail)
Pennsylvania Gazette, May 9, 1754
Poor Richard’s Almanack (1739)
Plain Truth (1747)
The Colonies Reduced, Cartoon which Franklin had made at the time of the Stamp Act
Draft of Franklin’s Autobiography
Declaration of Independence, draft with changes by Benjamin Franklin (detail)
Declaration of Independence (1776) with Franklin’s signature
An Address to the Public (1789)
Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks (1789)
Franklin’s Autograph (from Nordisk familjebok)

[edit] Franklin as a scientist and inventor

Franklin's Pennsylvania Fireplace (1744)
Franklin's Leyden jar experiment (1754)
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, history painting by Benjamin West (ca. 1816)
Franklin's kite experiment. 19th century engraving by Le Roy C. Cooley.
Franklin's sentry-box experiment. Drawing reproduced from the "Bowdoin MS", which consists of a manuscript copy of all of Franklin's earliest papers on electricity.
Glassharmonica

[edit] Sculptures and plaques

Marble bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1778)
Medaillon by Giovanni Battista Nini (1779)
Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Keys To Community (2007), a 9-foot bronze bust by James Peniston in Philadelphia
Sculpure by John J. Boyle at the University of Pennsylvania
Statue created by sculptor Herman Powers standing in the atrium of Benjamin Franklin High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Plaque commemorating Benjamin Franklin and Electricity on Saint Stephen’s Church, Philadelphia