Benjamin Franklin and his electrical experiments

✍ Scribed by Dr.Robert A. Millikan

• Book ID: 103078742
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1949
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 717 KB
• Volume: 248
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(49)90179-9

✦ Synopsis

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

[J. l;. I. occasions of Campaigns for Centennial Funds, which sometimes, unfortunately, have Tencential results.

The first Centennial of which I have any recollection, although I was not present at the Celebration and followed the description of events only in the newspapers, was the great Centennial Celebration of American Independence in this City in 1876. Its influence on the progress of science and learning in America was simply incalculable. The effects of the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of 1926 were not so great, although the progress of Civilization was probably greater in that half-century than in the previous century. But the rapid progress of science in the fraction of a century, indeed in a single lifetime, calls for looks backward and forward in every half-or quarter-century.

But in the endless flow of time how insignificant years, and lifetimes, and even centuries seem[ And how devoutly we should echo Whittier's Centennial Hymn:

"Our father's God! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet today, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one."

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HIS ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTS