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The north-American printer, publisher, author, natural scientist, inventor and politician, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) contributed to the draft declaration of independence of the United States. He represented the US as diplomat in France and worked as delegate at the Philadelphia Convention on the American constitution. He founded the first volunteer fire brigades in Philadelphia as well as the first lending library of America and he invented among other things the lightening conductor. He described his social rise in his "Autobiography" that was edited several times. The present autograph dated to 1 June 1750 is a letter Franklin's to his friend, the English botanist and member of the Royal Society, Peter Collinson (1694-1768). Franklin had met him at the foundation of the first American lending library in 1731, in particular since Collinson had sent the first delivery of books for the Library Company from London to Philadelphia. During the course of his research in the field of electricity, Franklin sent his observations in 1750 to Collinson, who had Franklin's letters be printed in part in the "The Gentleman's Magazine" and published in April 1751 as "Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America". Overnight, Franklin became famous in Europe. Datum: 2016
Author
Peter Czoik