Benjamin Franklin

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.

Genealogy[modifier]

Portraits[modifier]

First portrait by Robert Feke (1748)
Painting by Benjamin Wilson (c. 1760)
Painting by Mason Chamberlin (1762)
Painting by David Martin (1767)
Painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1777)
Painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1778)
Portrait of Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (ca. 1785)
Benjamin Franklin by Charles Willson Peale (1785)
Franklin in his fur cap
Benjamin Franklin in USCapitol by Constantino Brumidi (c. 1873)

On group pictures[modifier]

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

Documents related to Franklin[modifier]

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)
Cover of the first English edition of 1793
Title page of the original edition of the autobiography in French.
Franklin's Journal de Paris
A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings
New-England Courant first issue (1721)

Franklin as a scientist and inventor[modifier]

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
Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica in an Italian publication
Franklin's blueprint for Franklin Stove
Franklin stove

Sculptures and plaques[modifier]

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
Sculpture 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
Frankin's plaque in France
Plaque in Kongresshalle in Berlin-Tiergarten
Pennsylvania Gazette
Franklin bust in the Archives Department of Columbia University in New York City