Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin ( the incarnation of the new rational man ) has flown a kite to it.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

A valuable pencil-and-sepia allegorical drawing of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Honore Fragonard has been donated by the art dealer Georges Wildenstein and now hangs in the Blue Room.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

On January 19, 1879, Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn wrote a prospectus for a new school which they distributed to potentially interested people throughout the country.

* Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England ( 1842-1844 ) ( 1908 ) by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Another shape note tunebook named The Sacred Harp ( 1844 ) by Georgia residents Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J.

Benjamin Franklin was familiar with Antoine, as they were both members of the " Benjamin Franklin inquiries " into Mesmer and animal magnetism.

The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

He discovered methane after reading a paper by Benjamin Franklin on " flammable air " and carefully searched for it in Italy.

Notable 18th-century autobiographies in English include those of Edward Gibbon and Benjamin Franklin.

Other Revolutionary War heroes who became figures of American folklore include: Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Nathan Hale, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, and John Paul Jones and Francis Marion.

Benjamin Franklin Bache was editor of the Aurora, a Republican newspaper.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin ( April 17, 1790 ) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

** The Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey

** The Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, which presents the Benjamin Franklin Medal

* Conrad Brandt, Benjamin Isadore Schwartz John King Fairbank, eds., A Documentary History of Chinese Communism ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952 ).

* Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History -- J. A.

* Halligan, Benjamin: " Idylls of Socialism: The Sarajevo Documentary School and the Problem of the Bosnian Sub-proletariat ".

' Domesticity: The Human Side of Benjamin Franklin ', Magazine of History, XXI ( 2006 ).

" When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 ," Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol.

* Benjamin Franklin at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

According to Carl Benjamin Boyer, in the introduction to his The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development, concepts in calculus do not refer to perceptions.

* The History of Calculus and its Conceptual Development, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-60509-4

Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research on electricity in the 18th century, as documented by Joseph Priestley ( 1767 ) History and Present Status of Electricity, with whom Franklin carried on extended correspondence.

In his 1940 essay " Theses on the Philosophy of History ," scholar Walter Benjamin compares historical materialism to The Turk, an 18th Century device which was promoted as a mechanized automaton which could defeat skilled chess players but actually concealed a human who controlled the machine.

* Benjamin Arnold, " Henry the Lion and His Time ", Journal of Medieval History, vol.

* Murray, H. J. R. A History of Chess ( Northampton, MA: Benjamin Press, 1985 ) ISBN 0-936317-01-9

* 1922 Merrimac article Chapter 30 on pages 313 – 318 of Volume I of the Municipal History of Essex County, edited by Benjamin F. Arrington, published 1922 by Lewis Historical Publishing.

According to The History of Ontario County New York, some of the earliest pioneers included " Daniel Gates, Daniel Warner, Ezra Platt, Samuel Day, George Chapin, Israel Chapin, Jr., Frederick Follett, Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Wells and Mr. Sweet, all of whom were from Massachusetts, while William Wyckoff who was another pioneer, was from Pennsylvania.

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union, until 1707 includes a history of the Kingship by Benjamin Hudson.

Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852 ( University Press of Kentucky ; 2012 ) 371 pages ; emphasis on Benjamin Henry Latrobe and " neoclassical " Lexington.

1877 ); S. F. Alleyne and A. Goodwin, Plato and the Older Academy ( 1876 ); Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe and J. H. Muirhead, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics ( 1897 ); O. J. Reichel, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics ( 1870 and 1880 ); S. F. Alleyne, History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy ( 1883 ).

* Benjamin Noldmanns Geschichte der Aufklärung in Abyssinien ( Benjamin Noldmann's History of the Enlightenment in Abyssinia ), novel, 1790

* Immerman, Richard H. Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz ( 2010 ) pp 196 – 231 excerpt and text search

It has been translated into English by Benjamin Thorpe as History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings ( 1845 ), and History of England under the Norman Kings ( Oxford, 1857 ), and was continued in three additional volumes from 1154 to 1509 by R Pauli.

Moreover, the critic Paul de Man argued that the intellectual range of Benjamin ’ s writings flows dynamically among those three intellectual traditions, deriving a critique via juxtaposition ; the exemplar synthesis is " On the Concept of History " ( Theses on the Philosophy of History ).

As the last finished piece of work from Benjamin, the Theses on the Philosophy of History ( noted above ) is often cited ; Adorno claimed this had been written in the spring of 1940, weeks before the Germans invaded France.

" The Concept of History in Walter Benjamin ’ s Critical Theory ," in Radical Philosophy Review, San Francisco, CA, Vol.

Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History.