Saturday, April 19, 2008

Benjamin Franklin died Thursday – 218 years ago

Author (of Poor Richard's Almanack) and inventor (of the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, the Franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and... and... the urinary catheter) Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He said, “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days." [And sometimes much sooner.]... Mr. Franklin died on April 17, 1790 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.



Now check out the glass harmonica:





And don't miss
this.

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