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Benjamin Franklin facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Benjamin Franklin at Encyclopedia.com. ... His principle achievement was the formulation of a widely used theory of general .... Farther Experiments and Observations in Electricity, Franklin described some new ... Here Franklin used the term electrical natter for the first time.
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Ben Franklin's best inventions and innovations - Constitution Daily  Jan 17, 2013 ... In his day, Benjamin Franklin was Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Mark ... Here's a look at his most enduring innovations and inventions on ... Invention: The lightning rod (circa 1753). ... Invention: Key words to describe electricity. ... the scientific community in France (which helped his later diplomatic career).
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Benjamin Franklin - American Revolution - HISTORY.com  Benjamin Franklin was an accomplished revolutionary, but his private life ... active in public affairs in his adopted city, where he helped launch a lending library, ... to London, England, and again found employment in the printing business. ... went on to become, in 1753, joint postmaster general for all the American colonies.
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Benjamin Franklin, First Postmaster General - about USPS  Born in Boston in 1706, Benjamin Franklin left school at age 10 to work in his father's ... was named joint postmaster general for the Crown on August 10, 1753. ... He helped establish a library, fire company, academy, philosophical society,...
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The Electric Ben Franklin - USHistory.org  Returns home to Boston to try to borrow money from his father to start print shop. ... Suffers first pleurisy attack; Leaves job with Denham; Is rehired by printer Keimer ... Fire Company (Franklin regularly attends meetings of the Library Company, the ... 1753. Received honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale. Appointed joint...
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One - Craig Carey  Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an. Old One (1748) ... Remember that TIME is Money. He that ... his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho' he ... Work, he sends for his Money the next Day.
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Colonial molasses trade - Wikipedia  The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in ... Rum also gained popularity in Britain as English ships brought the liquor from ... In the 18th century, New England became one of the leading rum producers in .... South of Pennsylvania, there was little interest in rum distillation,...
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Benjamin Franklin by homero pena on Prezi  on 31 October 2014 ... Despite his success at the Boston Latin School, Ben was removed at 10 to work with his ... settling in Philadelphia, which was his home base for the rest of his life. ... trade in Philadelphia, lodging at the home of John Read in 1723, ... but felt duped when letters of introduction never arrived and he was...
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Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia - Encyclopedia Virginia  Dec 8, 2011 ... At first, the Virginia Company of London paid to transport servants across the ... Planters, mariners, and merchants then fixed the servants' years of service ... In some instances groups of investors promised to give land to their ... not suffice in America, where the labor market was less stable than in England.
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Example Essays: Pennsylvania General Assembly  He wrote much of the material for his newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette. ... In 1736 he became clerk of Pennsylvania Assembly. ... By 1753, he had become...
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The Beginning of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada  ... in 1670, and the King of England granted the Company a fur trade monopoly for all ... The deep-water ports gave the British traders easy access to the richest fur ... In 1670, the company is officially declared and given access to Rupert's Land. ... In 1673, the first official post, Moose Factory is established on the Southern...
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Benjamin Franklin Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography | 2008 ... Franklin relates in his autobiography that he was put to the Grammar School at eight years of Age ... He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly (1751) and alderman of ...... In 1724 he went to England, where he quickly became a master printer, sowed wild...
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A Good Credit History, Indeed; Opening the Books on American ...  Aug 21, 1999 ... Article describes some treasures contained in R G Dun & Co ... volumes of handwritten credit reports that date back to 1841 and run through 1891. ... A June 1870 entry on one J. B. Alford, who sold groceries and liquors, read: ''This man ... it merged with its main competitor, the Bradstreet Company, in 1933.
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Break with Britain: Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words ...  There he remained, except for a brief return to Philadelphia, until the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, serving as an American provincial agent and...
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Ben and Me Book Study C - Common Sense Press  Another time Amos corrected 'mistakes' he found in Ben's. Ben and Me. An Astonishing Life of. Benjamin Franklin By. His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson.
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Fortnum and Mason, a history of the company - Britain Express  How does a used-candle seller found one of the most successful and ... William Fortnum became a footman in the royal household of Queen Anne in 1707. ... Fortnum then convinced his landlord, Hugh Mason, to go into the grocery ... They still sell personalized hampers for travelers on the Channel Tunnel or airplane flights...
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Jeopary Questions page 1764 - THE CORONER STORE ...  MIND YOUR BUSINESS: In 1937 this French leather-goods maker produced its .... THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: During the winter of 1778-79, this Prussian wrote the first American Army ... THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: During the war this silversmith had a booming business casting cannons for the Continental Army.
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Mind Your Business - Brown University  SpermaCaeti Candles Warranted Pure are made & Sold by Nicholas Brown & Co. in ... This account gives the names of the women employed and records the ... Ives and Welcome Arnold did not end happily: numerous conflicts over supplies, output, ... Shortly before the start of the Revolution, the merchants of Providence...
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BBC - History - British History in depth: Slavery and Economy in ...  Feb 17, 2011 ... Market conditions for its first commercial crop, tobacco, enabled the accumulation ... In the first decade, when settlement was tenuous, the first Barbadian settlers ... Nigeria also provided slaves for Barbados, the Yoruba, Efik, Igbo and .... By the mid eighteenth century, newer colonies in the Caribbean, such...
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Food 1 - Industries - Business History of Industries - Business ...  1728 - Walter Churchman started apothecary business in Bristol, England; 1729 ..... 1873 - KNORR Company began packaging, selling soup mixes in food shops; 1899 ..... 1850 - Scotsman David Jack, arrived in Monterey, CA; 1869 - Monterey's ..... formed Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company in Camden, New Jersey,...
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Benjamin Franklin Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)  Benjamin Franklin. Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748). 1. Advice to a young Tradesman, written by an old One. ... Remember that Time is Money. He that...