#ben franklin

[beggars-opera]

Benjamin Franklin, 1778, organizing important military treaties with the French government in a coonskin cap while getting laid 10 times a day:

The French: this freak is incredible, give him all the money

The Americans: fucking fabulous, here have a promotion

John Adams: *gnawing his own leg off in the corner in indignation*

#history #american revolution #ben franklin #john adams

[greenlabcoat]

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man pregnant. 👍

#ben franklin

[worldhistoryfacts]

The most famous early experiment with electricity was Ben Franklin’s kite. In 1752, he flew a kite with a metal key attached to his kite string in a thunderstorm. The key collected static electricity from the storm (it was not hit by lightning, as is commonly believed; that would have killed Franklin).

Sixty years later, Benjamin West depicted the moment as a moment of almost divine inspiration:

Though Franklin gets all the credit for this idea, a number of intrepid scientists were doing similar things around the same time — including Georg Wilhelm Richmann, who, the following year, was killed when lightning struck an apparatus he had set up.

{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}

Many more experiments with electricity, from the silly to the sublime:

#history #science #weather #electricity #ben franklin

[pingskumonium]

this is canon trust

#artsky #1776 musical #john dickinson #1776 #amrev #john adams #thomas jefferson #charles thomson #james wilson #ben franklin #edward rutledge

[comic-covers]

(1973)

#The Funky Phantom #comic book #1973 #Gold Key #comics #the liberty bell #Ben Franklin #vintage #1970s #comic books #Muddles the ghost #Jonathan Muddlemore

[thatsbelievable]

#17 Times Ben Franklin Kicked Me in the Shins (and What I Had For Lunch That Day) #Ben Franklin #Benjamin Franklin #history #U.S. history #food #lunch #circus peanuts #jelly beans #lima beans #cottage cheese #peaches #tea #toast #banana pudding #boiled something-or-other #snake #limp celery #pickled tree bark #pepper cake #lemon syllabub #biscuits and cream #jam #poached eggs

[authenticfashionstatements]

Gold Ben Franklin

#Gold Ben Franklin #ben franklin #100 dollar bill #Money #fashion #luxury #luxury fashion #street fashion #authentic fashion statements

[gillianthecat]

I'm still so fucking mad that the conventional direction of current is opposite that of electron flow. Thanks Ben Franklin 🙄

#I suspect this is going to make many things confusing and difficult for me in this physics class #hw lb #physics #gillianthecat goes back to school #ben franklin

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.” That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin's wisdom not biblical; it's counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of neighbor. On this essential matter, most Americans—most American Christians—are simply wrong, as if 75 percent of American scientists believed that Newton proved gravity causes apples to fly up.”

― Bill McKibben

#quotes #Bill McKibben #belief #Scripture #Ben Franklin #love of neighbor #getting it wrong

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

An inaccurate telling of American History Part 1

#talkin #ace vane #american history #american revolution #boston tea party #samuel adams #ben franklin #east india company

[coolconsiderateman]

happy birthday to Ben Franklin!!(pls ignore my amrev books on the background)

#amrev #benjamin franklin #amrev history #ben franklin #he’s 317!!!

[sarahhillips]

I absolutely adore Disneys take on an animated Ben Franklin.

#the liberty story #ben franklin #disney #amos mouse #amrev

[ketchuplaser]

Ben Franklin would've done big numbers on Tumblr.

Poignant thoughts that he loved to put out into the world, strange personal habits, loved to make things, etc.

#ketchup laser #ben franklin #benjamin franklin

[teathattast]

#twitter #twitter memes #funny tweets #ben Franklin #ben shapiro #microplastics #lizzo #sorry i accidently tagged this as latto she was trending on twitter and his heavy on my mind #is*

[pingskumonium]

original

#artsky #1776 musical #ben franklin #1776 #john adams

[daisybombz]

/Looking for Alaska, 2019/Dress, Taylor Swift/Luncheon of the Boating Party, Pierre-Auguste Renoir/Cherry Wine, Hozier/The Parent Trap, 1998/Benjamin Franklin/Strawberry Wine, Noah Kahan/I Will Drink the Wine, Frank Sinatra/Hole in the Bottle, Kelsea Ballerini/The Holiday, 2006/

#wine #taylor swift #cherry wine #strawberry wine #Noah Kahan #the parent trap #the holiday #Ben franklin #kelsea ballerini #pierre auguste renoir #looking for Alaska #john green #frank sinatra #hozier