Happy 300th Birthday Benjamin Franklin 277
Guinnessy writes "Benjamin Franklin was born on 17 January 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Franklin was a man of diverse talents: publisher, inventor, ambassador, politician, wit with some human frailities says NPR. In Physics Today, Philip Krider presents Franklin's work on electricity and the development of the lightning rod, work whose fame helped Franklin obtain aid from the French against the British. In the same magazine, Joost Mertens considers Franklin's explorations of the calming effects of oil on water. Those investigations, it turns out, had a less than calming effect on Dutch scholars. Philadelphia is planning a series of events celebratng Franklin's life throughtout the year."
get your wallets out... (Score:4, Funny)
-Sj53
Ben Franklin's Virtue Number 12, revised (Score:5, Funny)
And certainly NEVER do it in front of a Web cam.
It's not really his 300th birthday (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Benjamin Franklin, the truest of American Heroe (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Benjamin Franklin, the truest of American Heroe (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Benjamin Franklin, the truest of American Heroe (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm, maybe we could hook up a turbine up to him and generate some electricity. That would be properly honoring Franklin's inventive spirit.
Slashdot readers should worship the guy! (Score:5, Funny)
Just you remember (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Give Franklin his coin back! (Score:3, Funny)
Jello Biafra is on a coin now? Wow, things are getting pretty liberal.
He is one of the three men I admire most (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Franklin on Older Women (Score:3, Funny)
And cleverly said, too -- "Why Elizabeth, you are every bit as attractive as a much younger woman, just as soon as I put this giant basket over the top half of your body and extinguish all the lights
timothy
Re:get your wallets out... (Score:2, Funny)
I don't have all day!