makimbo – Benjamin Franklin Historical Society

Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collison dated October...

Description of the electric kite experiment from a letter to Peter Collison dated October 19, 1752...

By conducting the kite experiment Franklin proved that lighting was an electrical discharge and...

There are several good reasons why Benjamin Franklin‘s portrait is in the highest US bill...

Benjamin Franklin wrote a list of virtues with the idea of achieving moral perfection on habits...

To the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States, The Memorial of the Pennsylvania...

From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes...

Early view on slavery Like most citizens of his time Benjamin Franklin owned slaves and viewed them...

Improving quality of live Much of what Franklin did and left as his legacy was directed to...

Later Years During his later years Franklin’s health gradually deteriorated. From 1785 to 1787...

After the was signed in 1783 Franklin had to wait two more years until he was relieved of his...