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Portrait of a man in Elizabethan dress with a lace ruff and beard

Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds

Ledbury during filming 'One More Time' Circa 1st August 1969

Plate 26 from Volume 2 of Travels in the Interior of North America

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist mb-width 220 Portrait of a man inBenjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 20th century. Franklin (1706 1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Trained as a printer, first in his family's firm in Boston, and later in England, he became a notable publisher but is now better known as one of the founders of the science of electricity. Franklin became interested in the principles of electricity in 1747 and published