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How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention

http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/can-do/

by mathewgj • 17 years ago

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sidburgess• 17 years ago

Fascinating collection. I really enjoyed just looking at these pictures. Thank you for sharing.

mathewgj• 17 years ago

Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do

thunk• 17 years ago

If you like that you'll love his autobiography:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148

It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.

brandnewlow• 17 years ago

relentlessly resourceful...

ankeshk• 17 years ago

Very innovative. But a segue is missing. Ben Franklin's innovations are shown. Other modern world innovations are shown. How Ben Franklin inspired those world innovations is not shown. A link is missing.

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