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.

[edit] Portraits

Painting by Mason Chamberlin (1762)

Painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1777)

Portrait of Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (ca. 1785)

Engraving by H. B. Hall (1868) after painting by J. S. Duplessis

[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)

[edit] Documents related to Franklin

Poor Richard’s Almanack (1739)	The Colonies Reduced, Cartoon which Franklin had made at the time of the Stamp Act	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

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.	Illustration from Franklin’s paper on "Water-spouts and Whirlwinds"
Glassharmonica

[edit] Sculptures and plaques

Marble bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1778)	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