Benjamin Franklin

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  • Author: Krull, Kathleen
    Contributor:

    Gilbert, Tavia

    Summary:

    Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Kathleen Krull reveals Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for "scientist" back in the 1700s), a man whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity, including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Juvenile nonfiction, Science
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] , Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781094089614

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    1094089613

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    9781094089621

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    1094089621

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DC Contributor

Gilbert, Tavia

Abstract

Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Kathleen Krull reveals Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for "scientist" back in the 1700s), a man whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity, including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.

Genre
Biographies and autobiographies
Juvenile nonfiction
Science
Publisher (Source)

[Ashland, Oregon]

Blackstone Publishing

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