How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention (kalman.blogs.nytimes.com) 30 points by mathewgj 16y ago ↗ HN
[–] sidburgess 16y ago ↗ Fascinating collection. I really enjoyed just looking at these pictures. Thank you for sharing.
[–] mathewgj 16y ago ↗ Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do [–] thunk 16y ago ↗ If you like that you'll love his autobiography:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.
[–] thunk 16y ago ↗ If you like that you'll love his autobiography:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.
[–] ankeshk 16y ago ↗ Very innovative. But a segue is missing. Ben Franklin's innovations are shown. Other modern world innovations are shown. How Ben Franklin inspired those world innovations is not shown. A link is missing.
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[ 1.6 ms ] story [ 26.3 ms ] threadhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148
It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.