* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

Appointed as Secretary of the Boundary Commission in 1750, Benjamin Chew, Esq.

Originally part of Lancaster County ( 1729 ), then Cumberland County ( 1750 ), Franklin County became an independent jurisdiction on September 9, 1784, named in honor of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

In May 1750, Benjamin Chambers participated in removing settlers from nearby Burnt Cabins, which took its name from the incident.

As early as 1750 Benjamin Franklin, in his article The Morals of Chess, has advocated such a view:

It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson ( 1753 – 1814 ), later Count Rumford ( Reichsgraf von Rumford ) and extended and improved by his successors, Reinhard von Werneck ( 1757 – 1842 ) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell ( 1750 – 1823 ), who had advised on the project from the beginning.

In 1750, Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia made a commercial blasting cap consisting of a paper tube full of black powder, with wires leading in both sides and wadding sealing up the ends.

This 2006 creation by P22 is based on the pages produced by Benjamin Franklin circa 1750.

In 1750, Ben Franklin hypothesized that a pointed iron rod would light up at the tip during a lightning storm, similar in appearance to St. Elmo's fire.

Franklin also included the occasional mathematical exercise, and the Almanack from 1750 features an early example of demographics.

In 1750 Bowdoin traveled to Philadelphia to meet with Franklin.

In July 1750, Franklin hypothesized that electricity could be taken from clouds via a tall metal aerial with a sharp point.

In 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project to a delighted public, and in 1751 the first volume was published.

Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws ( 1748 ) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ).

The master swordsmith Suishinshi Masahide ( c. 1750 – 1825 ) published opinions that the arts and techniques of the shintō swords were inferior to the kotō blades, and that research should be made by all swordsmiths to rediscover the lost techniques.

He wrote letters, had two ordinary sermons published ( in 1747 and 1750 ), and tried his hand at satire.

In 1965 Putnam published John Cleland's 1750 novel Fanny Hill.

Telemann wrote choral cantatas for Frankfurt ( later published in solo versions as the Harmonische Gottesdienst ) and Graupner cycles for Darmstadt, but Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) made a truly monumental contribution: his obituary mentions five complete cycles of his cantatas, of which three, comprising some 200 works, are known today, in addition to motets.

It was not until 1956 that Bernhard Bischoff identified a third manuscript ( consisting of a single leaf ) that contained fragments of Fronto's correspondence with Verus, which overlapped the Milan palimpsest ; however, the actual manuscript had been first published in 1750 by Dom Tassin, who conjectured that it might have been the work of Fronto.

His published works include numerous speeches and pamphlets, including those connected with his well-known Roman Catholic controversy with Charles Butler ( 1750 – 1832 ) and with the Gorham case, in which he was a principal player.

Arne also showed an early talent as a composer and his first collection of vocal art songs entitled The Floweret was published in 1750.

It is named after Gabriel Cramer ( 1704 – 1752 ), who published the rule for an arbitrary number of unknowns in 1750, although Colin Maclaurin also published special cases of the rule in 1748 ( and probably knew of it as early as 1729 ).

The most prominent being the rhyming weaver poetry, of which, some 60 to 70 volumes were published between 1750 and 1850, the peak being in the decades 1810 to 1840, although the first printed poetry ( in the Habbie stanza form ) by an Ulster Scots writer was published in a broadsheet in Strabane in 1735.

In 1749 he published Einleitung in die Harmonie der Evangelien, and in 1750 was appointed professor extraordinarius of theology.

In 1750, he attacked Thomas Sherlock's notions of antediluvian prophecy, which had been published 25 years before.

Euler ’ s fifth paper on nautical topics, E137, is also written in this year but not published until 1750.

& c., in which is contained, besides his works, a great number of original papers and records on religion, politics, anatomy, mathematics, architecture, antiquities, and most branches of polite literature, compiled by his son Christopher ; now published by his grandson, Stephen Wren, Esq., with the care of Joseph Ames ,’ London, 1750.

He completed Rollin's Histoire romaine by the addition of six volumes ( 1750 – 1756 ); he also published two editions of Livy, with notes ; L ' Histoire des empereurs des Romains, jusqu ' à Constantin ( 1749 ); Histoire de l ' Université de Paris, and a Rhétorique française, which enjoyed much popularity.

It was discovered in the Ambrosian Library in Milan by Father Ludovico Antonio Muratori ( 1672 – 1750 ), the most famous Italian historian of his generation, and published in 1740.

In 1750 he published at Cambridge a work of some eighty pages entitled A Treatise of Artificial Magnets, in which is shown an easy and expeditious method of making them superior to the best natural ones.

Gradually, Tartini became more interested in the theory of harmony and acoustics, and from 1750 to the end of his life he published various treatises.

John Offord has recently republished John of the Green – The Cheshire Way ( ISBN 978-0-9556324-0-2 ), an extensive study of published and manuscript dance music in these forms from before 1750.

This was his treatise on algebraic curves, " Introduction à l ' analyse des lignes courbes algébriques ", published in 1750.

It was founded by Louis XV in 1750 on the basis of a proposal of the financier Joseph Paris Duverney with the support of Madame de Pompadour, with the aim of creating an academic college for cadet officers from poor families.

Road construction first became a priority after 1750, when Zurich and Bern began appointing a governor for seven years.

The average rate for a one room apartment was 602. 27 CHF ( US $ 480, £ 270, € 390 ), a two room apartment was about 846. 52 CHF ( US $ 680, £ 380, € 540 ), a three room apartment was about 1054. 14 CHF ( US $ 840, £ 470, € 670 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2185. 24 CHF ( US $ 1750, £ 980, € 1400 ).

From 1750 to 1898 the Chief Magistrate was the administrating official for the dependency, appointed by the Jamaican governor.

He recalled earning $ 1750 average fee for 18 screenplays in two years and said, " None was very good.

IR spectra for esters feature an intense sharp band in the range 1730 – 1750 cm < sup >− 1 </ sup > assigned to ν < sub > C = O </ sub >.

Before 1750 the German upper classes looked to France for intellectual, cultural and architectural leadership ; French was the language of high society.

Perhaps the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), whose solo works ( for instance, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations ), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.

Determinants were used by Leibniz in 1693, and subsequently, Gabriel Cramer devised Cramer's Rule for solving linear systems in 1750.

In the second half of the 17th century lutes, vihuelas and similar instruments started losing popularity, and almost no music had been written for the instrument after 1750.

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

* Calculations by him of eclipses for eighteen hundred years were inserted in L ' Art de vérifier les dates by Benedictine historian Charles Clémencet ( 1750 )

The Jesuit-inspired War of the Seven Reductions ( 1750 – 61 ), increased sentiment in Madrid for suppressing this " empire within an empire ".

In 1758 the reforming minister of Joseph I of Portugal ( 1750 – 77 ), the Marquis of Pombal, expelled the Jesuits from Portugal, and shipped them en masse to Civitavecchia, as a " gift for the Pope.

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

The Earth's motion was described in Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), which provided a formula for estimating the motion of the Sun relative to the epoch 1900 based on astronomical observations made between 1750 and 1892.

But manuscripts from 1735 ( The Square of Sevens ) and 1750 ( Pratesi Cartomancer ) document rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the tarot as well as a system for laying out the cards.