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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688169945
Focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.
Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-12-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780688169930
Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky. Is such a thing possible? Is it. Take a look inside and find Ben busy at work on every spread. Then find out how he used his discovery about lightning to make people's lives safer. In an inventive way, Rosalyn Schanzer brings us a brilliant and ever-curious American original.
Author : Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Inventors
ISBN : 0439634660
Author : Tom Tucker
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786739424
Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. His kite experiment was an international event and the Franklin that it presented to the world—a homespun, rural philosopher-scientist performing an immensely important and dangerous experiment with a child's toy—became the Franklin of myth. In fact, this sly presentation on Franklin's part so charmed the French that he became an irresistible celebrity when he traveled there during the American Revolution. The crowds and the journalists, and the ladies, cajoled the French powers into joining us in our fight against the British. What no one has successfully proven until now—and what few have suggested—is that Franklin never flew the kite at all. Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer. And with the electric kite, he performed his greatest hoax. As Tucker shows, it was this trick that may have won the American Revolution.
Author : Gene Barretta
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429917315
The inventions and inspiration of Benjamin Franklin and how they've stood the test of time What would you do if you lived in a community without a library, hospital, post office, or fire department? If you were Benjamin Franklin, you'd set up these organizations yourself. Franklin also designed the lightning rod, suggested the idea of daylight savings time, and invented bifocals-all inspired by his common sense and intelligence. In this informative book, Gene Barretta brings Benjamin Franklin's genius to life, deepening our appreciation for one of the most influential figures in American history. Now & Ben is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823449453
In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman, renowned author, and world-famous scientist. Freedman's riveting story of how a rebellious apprentice became an American icon comes in an elegantly designed book filled with art and includes a timeline, source notes, bibliography, and index
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Almanacs
ISBN : UOM:39015003684985
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Google Auto-narrated Demo
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. This title is based on the Harvard Classics edition.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547488165
A wizard from the start, Thomas Edison had a thirst for knowledge, taste for mischief, and hunger for discovery—but his success was made possible by his boundless energy. At age fourteen he coined his personal motto: “The More to do, the more to be done,” and then went out and did: picking up skills and knowledge at every turn. When learning about things that existed wasn't enough, he dreamed up new inventions to improve the world. From humble beginnings as a farmer’s son, selling newspapers on trains and reading through public libraries shelf by shelf, Tom began his inventing career as a boy and became a legend as a man.
Author : Robert Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:270661028
Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1751
Category : Electric power
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00126527
Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410308443
Almost everyone has heard of the Nobel Prize, a collection of prizes awarded for accomplishments in science, medicine, literature, and peace. But few people know about the man who established the award and for whom it is named, Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel was born in Sweden in 1833. A quick and curious mind, combined with a love of science and chemistry, drove him to invent numerous technological devices throughout his long life. But he is perhaps most well known for his invention of dynamite. Intending it to help safely advance road and bridge construction, Nobel saw his most famous invention used in the development of military weaponry. After a newspaper headline mistakenly announces his death, Nobel was inspired to leave a legacy of another sort. The Man Behind the Peace Prize tells the story of the enduring legacy of Alfred Nobel.Kathy-jo Wargin is the bestselling author of more than 30 books for children. Among her many awards for her work are an International Reading Association Children's Choice Award for The Legend of the Loon and an IRA Teachers' Choice Award for Win One for the Gipper. She lives in the Great Lakes area. Zachary Pullen's character-oriented picture book illustrations have won awards and garnered starred reviews. He has been honored several times with acceptance into the prestigious Society of Illustrators juried shows and Communication Arts Illustration Annual of the best in current illustration. Zachary lives in Wyoming.
Author : Sydney George Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : UCAL:$B282145
Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the True Benjamin Franklin. Of Franklin, he says that the human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light. Fisher s book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin s influence on American culture.--
Author : Masaichiro Anno,Mitsumasa Anno
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0698117530
Simple text and pictures introduce the mathematical concept of factorials.
Author : Anne Rockwell
Publisher : Clarion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544582462
This fascinating picture book biography on George Washington reveals what made the shy boy from Virginia one become one of the greatest leaders America has ever known.