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How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

2002-12-24 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2002-12-24
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Book Synopsis How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning by : Rosalyn Schanzer

Download or read book How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning written by Rosalyn Schanzer. This book was released on 2002-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky. Is such a thing possible? Is it. Take a look inside and find Ben busy at work on every spread. Then find out how he used his discovery about lightning to make people's lives safer. In an inventive way, Rosalyn Schanzer brings us a brilliant and ever-curious American original.

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

2003 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2003
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Download or read book How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning written by . This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.

Stealing God's Thunder

2005-12-27 History
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Release : 2005-12-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 107/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Stealing God's Thunder by : Philip Dray

Download or read book Stealing God's Thunder written by Philip Dray. This book was released on 2005-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.” –Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin’s day, the era of Enlightenment, long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work. Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values. He recounts how Franklin unlocked one of the greatest natural mysteries of his day, the seemingly unknowable powers of lightning and electricity. Rich in historical detail and based on numerous primary sources, Stealing God’s Thunder is a fascinating original look at one of our most beloved and complex founding fathers.

Bolt Of Fate

2009-04-24 History
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Release : 2009-04-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 428/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bolt Of Fate by : Tom Tucker

Download or read book Bolt Of Fate written by Tom Tucker. This book was released on 2009-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. His kite experiment was an international event and the Franklin that it presented to the world -- a homespun, rural philosopher-scientist performing an immensely important and dangerous experiment with a child's toy -- became the Franklin of myth. In fact, this sly presentation on Franklin's part so charmed the French that he became an irresistible celebrity when he traveled there during the American Revolution. The crowds and the journalists, and the ladies, cajoled the French powers into joining us in our fight against the British. What no one has successfully proven until now -- and what few have suggested -- is that Franklin never flew the kite at all. Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer. And with the electric kite, he performed his greatest hoax. As Tucker shows, it was this trick that may have won the American Revolution.

Electric Ben

2012-09-13 Juvenile Nonfiction
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Release : 2012-09-13
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 491/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Electric Ben by : Robert Byrd

Download or read book Electric Ben written by Robert Byrd. This book was released on 2012-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Ben is now a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book! “a true standout…bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself.” – The New York Times A true Renaissance man, Benjamin Franklin was the first American celebrity. In pictures and text, master artist Robert Byrd documents Franklin's numerous and diverse accomplishments, from framing the Constitution to creating bifocals. The witty, wise, and endlessly curious Franklin is the perfect subject for Byrd's lively style and vibrant art. The pages pulse with facts, quotes, and captions, while the inventive design and intricately detailed illustrations make a striking tribute to the brilliant American.

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