The political push to increase cooperation among the then-loyal colonies began with the Albany Congress in 1754 and Benjamin Franklin's proposed intercolonial collaboration to help solve mutual local problems themselves ; the Articles of Confederation would bear some resemblance to it.

John Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin's handwritten drafts of the Articles of Confederation are housed at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Cover of the first English edition of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, 1793

Benjamin, their eighth child, was Josiah Franklin's 15th child and tenth and last son.

Benjamin Franklin's Science ( 1990 ) – Cohen, the leading specialist, has several books on Franklin's science

Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America.

* Olson, Lester C. Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology.

* McCoy, Drew R. " Benjamin Franklin's Vision of a Republican Political Economy for America.

* Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography edited by J.

* Benjamin Franklin and Electrostatics experiments and Franklin's electrical writings from Wright Center for Science Education, Tufts University

* The Benjamin Franklin House Franklin's only surviving residence.

The editorial stance was that the Boston populace feared that inoculation spread, rather than prevented, the disease ; however, some historians, notably H. W. Brands, have argued that this position was a result of editor-in-chief James Franklin's ( Benjamin Franklin's brother ) contrarian positions.

Mariners had noticed that lightning strikes had the ability to disturb a compass needle, but the link between lightning and electricity was not confirmed until Benjamin Franklin's proposed experiments in 1752.

This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory later in the century. Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs.

Kites have been used for scientific purposes, such as Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment proving that lightning is electricity.

The IEEE logo is a diamond-shaped design which illustrates the right hand grip rule embedded in Benjamin Franklin's kite, and it was created at the time of the 1963 merger.

* Benjamin Franklin's connection with the design of a lightning conductor for the Purfleet gunpowder magazine

The interchange is noted in Benjamin Franklin's Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America ( 1784 ).

The town was first laid out in 1764, and lots were advertised for sale on July 19 in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette

It was possibly renamed in honor of Benjamin Franklin's pro-American satirical essay " An Edict by the King of Prussia ".

* Cheshbon HaNefesh ( Accounting of the Soul ) by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Lefin of Satanov ( based in part on Benjamin Franklin's idea of the thirteen virtues )

Franklin Richards of the Fantastic Four often refers to Benjamin Grimm, the Thing, as " Uncle Ben " ( Grimm is the best friend of Franklin's father Reed Richards ).

Its opening sentence: " Heaven helps those who help themselves ", provides a variation of " God helps them that help themselves ", the oft-quoted maxim that also appeared previously in Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac ( 1733 – 1758 ).

Jervis ' grandson Benjamin married Mary Butler, daughter of a landed family in County Kildare.

He was also the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Deborah Read.

Binny & Ronaldson had bought the type founding equipment of Benjamin Franklin ’ s ( 1706 – 1790 ) type foundry established in 1786 and run by his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache ( 1769 – 1798 ).

The Putnam County ( Fla .) Historical Society has determined that Benjamin A. Putnam is the grandson of Israel Putnam, for whom other counties and places in the United States are named.

The name also appears in reference to a grandson of Benjamin in 1 Chronicles 8: 4.

* (; ), a son of Bela, and grandson of Benjamin ( 1 Chr.

Benjamin Harrison IV built on the estate what is believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia and is the ancestral home to two Presidents of the United States: William Henry Harrison, his grandson, and Benjamin Harrison his great-great-grandson.

Harrison was a son of Benjamin Harrison IV and Anne Carter, and a grandson of Robert Carter I, who was an ancestor of Robert E. Lee.

It is named after General Benjamin Cleveland, a War of 1812 figure and grandson of Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, a Revolutionary War figure.

Adjacent plantations were owned by a host of famous planters, including Plowden Weston, his grandson Plowden C. J. Weston, William Allston, Benjamin Allston, Dr. Henry Flagg, Allard Flagg, Joshua Ward, Allard Belin and their descendants.

The land was donated by Benjamin Franklin Morris, and the site was named for his grandson Joaquin.

Born in Vincennes, Indiana, the son of future President William Henry Harrison and Anna Tuthill Symmes and the grandson of Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Harrison V, Harrison completed preparatory studies and studied medicine.

Stoddard may have been too liberal for his grandson Jonathan Edwards, but he was lampooned for prudishness concerning petticoats in an anonymous pamphlet attributed to Benjamin Franklin.

The latter claimed, in right of his mother Frances Ratcliffe, daughter of Henry, third baron Fitz-walter, and second earl of Sussex, the barony of Fitz-walter, and his grandson Benjamin ( d. 1679 ), on 10 February 1670, was summoned to the House of Lords by that title.

In 1792, Morris's London agent, William Temple Franklin, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, sold of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase east of the Genesee River to The Pulteney Associates.

In 1995, Phelps Sr .' s eldest grandson, Benjamin Phelps, was convicted of assault and disorderly conduct after spitting upon the face of a passerby during a picket.

" He was the third son of Dr. Thomas and Elizabeth Stoddert Ewell, and was the grandson of Benjamin Stoddert, the first U. S. Secretary of the Navy, and the brother of Benjamin Stoddert Ewell.

Abi-Hud is the name given for a grandson of Benjamin in 1 Chronicles.

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst, First Sea Lord between 1993 and 1995, is the grandson of the Honourable Benjamin Bathurst, Member of Parliament for Cirencester, third son of the sixth Earl.