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How Ben Franklin made America the land of invention (nytimes.com)
30 points by mathewgj on July 31, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Other than finding it generally inspirational, I particularly liked the artifact of Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule card/to-do


If you like that you'll love his autobiography:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148

It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.


Very innovative. But a segue is missing. Ben Franklin's innovations are shown. Other modern world innovations are shown. How Ben Franklin inspired those world innovations is not shown. A link is missing.


Fascinating collection. I really enjoyed just looking at these pictures. Thank you for sharing.


relentlessly resourceful...




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