Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist Product:Postcard Night time view of the

Night time view of the Blackpool illuminations

the western plane tree (Catesby's identifications

But you'll find it difficult to join that neatly

Plate 5 from the paper 'On new properties of heat

from Othelllo

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist Product:Postcard Night time view of theBenjamin 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