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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 207. Chapters: Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Priestley, James D. Watson, Antonio Meucci, Joseph Widney, John D. Hamaker, James Bryant Conant, Robert Ledley, Barbara McClintock, Dian Fossey, Manfred Clynes, William X. Wang, Hendrik Wade Bode, Albert Ellis, David Deming, Michael Shermer, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Mae Jemison, List of African-American inventors and scientists, Miodrag Radulovacki, Paul J. Lioy, Peter Duesberg, Michael Graziano, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Eli Lilly, Randy Pausch, Joseph Wharton, Brian O'Leary, Grace Hopper, Lester R. Brown, John Woodland Hastings, Robert K. Crane, Benjamin Thompson, Frederick T. van Beuren, Jr., Ram Samudrala, Roscoe Bartlett, Jeffrey Laitman, Lyman James Briggs, Brian Wansink, Lewis J. Feldman, Walter Dandy, David Rittenhouse, Thomas Kuhn, Benjamin Hsiao, Irving Langmuir, Murder of Annie Le, Allen Steere, Peter Gleick, Lynn Margulis, Catherine Bertini, Alan Schriesheim, Alfred Lee Loomis, George R. Price, Dick Haugland, Robert Q. Marston, Charles Emerson Beecher. Excerpt: Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university. Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first...
