Benjamin Franklin is one of the best known but least understood ofAmerica’s revolutionary generation. He is well known to schoolchildren around the world as one who dabbled in the arts and sciences so as to invent bifocals and glass armonicas, refine the draft pipes and dampers of stoves, and develop and foster public libraries, in addition to savings, insurance, and fire companies. Journalists and those who enjoy the craft of printing honorFranklinas a central figure in the formation of printing and communication networks that afforded communication among the British colonies of the eastern seaboard of North America. Numismatists celebrate Franklinas the first Postmaster General in the colonies. Graphic artists and those who like to collect coins and engravings value Franklin’s work as an artist of political satire and an engraver of iconographic emblems representative of American materials and concerns. Indeed, Franklinhas great significance in a long tradition, from medieval times, of emblem-makers. [download]
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